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Practical guidance about dental scrap, precious metals, refining, evaluation, and choosing a refiner.

What Is Dental Scrap Refining?

Learn what dental scrap refining is, which dental materials may contain precious metals, and how refining and evaluation recover their value.

Follow a practical process for identifying, packaging, transferring, evaluating, and settling dental gold and other dental scrap.

Learn which precious metals may occur in dental crowns, why alloys differ and how qualifying material is evaluated.

Learn what a porcelain-fused-to-metal crown is, why its alloy can vary and when qualifying material can be refined.

Understand what direct dental refinery service means and which handling, testing and settlement questions to ask.

Learn how CrownMen receives, prepares and tests qualifying dental scrap, and how the findings support settlement reporting.

Prepare eligible dental scrap for pickup or shipment using CrownMen’s confirmed packing and identification guidance.

Compare dental refiners with questions about acceptance, testing, pricing, reporting, shipping, payment and processing terms.

Follow CrownMen’s documented story from its 1932 founding through generations of work with dental professionals.

Read the original CrownMen Blog article describing the CrownMen Challenge.