NEW YORK — Dazzled by the bull market in gold, people are digging through drawers for old dental caps, fillings and bridgework they saved years ago and selling them at prices that would make the ...

Merchants who regularly purchase gold told the Hannibal Courier-Post that they are seeing an upswing in people bringing in gold fillings to convert to cash. One jewelry store owner says he's had ...

Gold coins valued at $30,000 and the gold fillings, valued at $200,000 were taken. He said he hadn't been leaving the house much and there was no sign of forced entry.

A Colorado embalmer was indicted after authorities said he plundered the bodies of clients' loved ones by taking their gold teeth and fillings.

Dazzled by the bull market in gold, people are digging through drawers for old dental caps, fillings and bridgework they saved years ago and selling them at prices that would make the tooth fairy ...

That statement is untrue. Most dental gold is 18-carat pure gold. If the average mouth has five gold fillings and a gold crown, that would be worth hundreds of dollars to a gold smelter.

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- With the price of gold through the roof, at least two business people in Hannibal who regularly purchase gold say people are walking into their businesses with gold fillings to ...

For gold, it’s meant only more bad news. Until a decade ago, about 67 metric tons of the yellow metal, worth $2.7 billion today, were filling, capping and crowning teeth worldwide annually.

Gold dealer Nam Seung-Woo says he has bought gold fillings, crowns and even whole teeth from more than 100 customers in the past month.

One of the teeth then filled with gold is now entirely gone, and several others have had their filling renewed, but the one filled with tin is as good as it was on the day the operation was performed.

Gold crowns, fillings and bridgework are usually made of 16-karat gold, an alloy that contains other metals such as silver, zinc and copper. That made gold dental work soft enough to shape but hard ...