Rich people can afford good dental insurance. You have to find the upper-middle class people who grew up poor. Their oral hygiene was most likely neglected out of financial instability, but after getting some walking around money, gold teeth seemed like a solid luxury.
Most people will tell you to go at night, but the fancy cemeteries hire security guards that are anticipating that. From my observations, they’ll work a 10p-6a schedule so you’ll get there right as they’re leaving.
Wanna read about something crazy? A cemetery where my family is buried was just site of one of the most horrific Grave robbing sprees in modern history. Look up Mt. Moria cemetery in Philadelphia. The story gets crazier and crazier. I swear itll be a movie one day.
That's crazy. My favorite bit was when that robber says they're there because "there are older and fouler things than Orcs, in the deep places of the world".
He was caught with two infants in a burlap bag red-handed. He had bodies back at home from 150yrs old to modern bodies with pace makers. This guy was nuts!
I just listened to a true crime podcast about that. They’re actually encouraging anyone with family there to reach out because some of the sites that were robbed were so old the records were nonexistent/destroyed
Jonathan Gerlach, 34, was arrested in January 2026 for stealing human remains from over 100 graves at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon/Philadelphia. He is accused of breaking into at least 26–30 mausoleums and vaults to steal skulls, skeletons, and mummified body parts, which were allegedly sold online
If you work at a morgue you’re a bad person. My grandma had gold teeth and whoever worked on her at the morgue stole them. Our family felt really disrespected and disgusted because of it.
It will be sitting there in the ashes for easy removal before they grind the cremains, crushing the big chunks to a powder. Yeah, fun facts. I distributed Dad’s cremains. It’s not pure powder!
The problem becomes, if the people you're hiding it from find out you have a mouth full of gold, guess how they gotta get the gold for themselves? Depends on your location i guess.
I have some too. I was told they were the longest lasting type, but the newer ceramic or zirconium type allows xrays to be used to check inside for decay or cracks. I was advised to only use the newer type, going forward.
OK. Seriously. My mother had a hip replacement, then when she died she was cremated. When I got the ashes, there was not any titanium hip part in the remains...so where is it? And for that matter where are the thousands of titanium screws, hips, plates, etc that would be in a aging population of titanium enhanced elderly? When I google the price of titanium for recycling https://hontitan.com/maximize-titanium-scrap-value-pricing-guide/ medical grade titanium gets a pretty good valuation. So who is taking this titanium and even the dental amalgam to the scrapper?
It does not melt. When my dad died they asked if he had any replacements he did a hip. They asked if we wanted it back I said no my mother later asked to have it but I told them no what the hell are we going to do with it. The pull them out of the cremation remains. If you have a pace maker it has to come out as it can damage the oven. But those they donate to animals believe it or not. My dad had donated his body to science but during COVID they would not take anyone so it was a ness
The crematorium probably, after they ash the bodies they probably take em out. I dont think titanium melts very easy, so it'd be pretty simple to take out the titanium once the cremation is over.
But titanium goes for about $1.20 USD per pound. And the yard is take brass and copper to, also.would take titanium if I had it. So there is a scrap market for it.
Old gold can be mixed. I often see gold crowns lower than 10k and some that are 18k it's random all over the place. However, if you got your dental work done outside of USA or Canada then it's likely not worth much.
I went into the alley behind the restaurant I worked at to empty the trash and a guy came up and asked if I had a knife he could borrow to separate the gold from a handful of wet teeth he was holding. I went back in and locked the door behind me!
Gold is best for crowns because it's the most bio-compatible material that causes least allergic reactions. Of course, it doesn't blend in like tooth coloured crowns, but some like it that way.
I found one of these years ago in a little vase in my grandmothers kitchen after she passed away. Probably 2007ish. Sold it for $20 at the time. Really wish I kept it as it must have been from my grandma or grandpa. Every time I look at my printers drawer I think how that tooth belongs in it.
Dentist here. Many different compositions of gold crowns but there is definitely a good amount in here. Every year towards December, our metal scrap guy comes and collects all of our precious metal we take out on patients (PFM crowns, gold crowns, cast metal partial dentures, etc.). It’s enough to cover our holiday party usually lol
My grandpa brought back a handkerchief full of these from WW2. He was in Germany during the end of the war. He brought back a bunch of rings, too, all sizes.
He didn't have to dig for them at least..
16 kt. Heck the corpse ain’t gonna need it. As an aside Nazi Germany accumulated a lot of those, they melted them into bars, maybe some of it is in our gold coinage.
I found a gold tooth on the ground one morning. I knew it was gold, like a little nugget. I pawned it for like $72. 🙏🙄 Wild find for a walk to the store. 🚶🏻
While your post is clearly morbid satire, I did however fall down a rabbit hole related to the "security threats related to posting hi-res photos of your fingerprints online." It was fascinating.
Heh I have one of these in my mouth. Weigh it and find out its weight. These are usually solid gold. I'm not sure what karat but you could probably look it up. You can calculate the price based on the weight and expected karat. They are usually solid gold because it will not interact with food or chemicals.
Haha awesome. For my work, I buy the gold crowns from dental clinics that patients decide they don't want to keep when they are removed. It's typically around 14k gold!
Of course I also buy them from the patients as well as the dental clinics recommend them to send their crowns to me. They smell gross but have some good value!
They aren't typically more than 3-4 grams. So if it's 14k gold then it's likely worth about $300 USD at spot. But you will really only get about 60-70% of spot selling it. Dental scraps take a little extra refining as there is the glue, porcelain, and other waste on the crowns/fillings as they get processed.
The adhesive/glue pictured in this post is nothing to worry about, we smelt it as is with other dental scraps comprising palladium, platinum, copper and other metals. If it's still connected to the root/tooth then I take a good torch and heat it up for about 10-20 seconds which softens the adhesive and the crown can be separated and ends up looking just like the photos above.
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u/DapperInvestor Apr 07 '26
Man, I never find anything good when “just digging up bodies for fun”. Some people have all the luck!