Why You Should Refine Dental Scrap and How to Get Started
Dental Scrap—Why Refine It?

What is dental scrap and why refine it? Crowns, fillings, and bridgework made of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium are dental garbage. Even junk metals have worth because refining them unlocks them.

Dental scrap refining is simple to start. You only need to gather junk from local dentists, who sometimes provide it for free to decrease garbage expenses. Though little, scrap particles pile up quickly and contain a lot of precious metals.
After gathering enough scrap, you'll need a few basic items to extract the metals. Dental debris may yield gold or silver. Why not try it? Lose nothing, acquire plenty of valuable metals!

How to Refine Dental Scrap and Extract Precious Metals
You want to cash in your dental scrap bags. Knowing the basics makes refining valuable metals from dental trash easy.

Grab your supplies:  Crucibles, flux, borax, and oxyacetylene torches are needed first. Protective gear includes goggles, heat-resistant gloves, and a respirator.
Prepare dental scrap: Get rid of plastic and porcelain. Sort scrap by colour and metal type into gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Remove surface dirt from each group.
Melt dental scrap: Heat each metal group in crucibles using a torch until molten. To allow metal flow and dross to rise, add borax flux. Remove dross as needed.
Test and improve: Check each crucible's metal purity after melting. For 95-99% purity, add flux or make additional changes. Harden molten metal in ingot Molds.
Extraction of precious metals: Determine metal percentages and values via an assay. Sell refined ingots to precious metal purchasers or have cash in exchange for your gold and silver scrap.

You may find value in dental scrap with some simple equipment and understanding. Personal gold refining eliminates the middleman and increases profits. Why not try it? Success sparkles may be gratifying!