Inside the dental community, our focus is dental scrap. These include:
It is not only gold, platinum, or silver that can generate revenue. Palladium is one of the best kept secrets in the refinement industry. Palladium is usually mixed with gold or silver as well as copper and zinc in varying ratios to produce alloys suitable for dental inlays, crowns and bridges. The most common application is in crowns, where the alloy forms the core onto which porcelain is bonded to build up an artificial tooth.