This free dental gold calculator is the fastest way to estimate what your crowns, bridges, or scrap lot is worth before you contact any buyer. Run your numbers below, then compare your result against any offer you receive. Running your numbers first helps you recognize what a fair offer looks like before you talk to any buyer.
Dental Gold Calculator — Instant Payout Estimator
Enter today's spot price, the weight and the alloy type to see your estimated payout
Based on the weight, gold content, and spot price used. Your final offer is determined after melting and assay.
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Get Your Shipping Label →How this estimate is calculated
Gold content weight is the total weight multiplied by the gold percentage for the alloy type you selected (or your custom percentage). Your estimated payout is based on the weight, estimated gold content, and spot price used in the calculator. Your final offer is determined after melting and assay.
This is an illustrative estimate, not a guarantee or a binding offer.
Next step: request your free prepaid USPS shipping label. We email the label with packing instructions. Pack your dental gold in a USPS Small Flat Rate Box, available free at your local post office. The prepaid USPS shipping label and assay are free.
Get Your Shipping Label → How It WorksThis calculator produces illustrative estimates only. The estimated payout is not a guarantee, a guaranteed minimum, or a binding offer. The actual gold content of dental gold is established by melt-and-assay; appearance, color and weight alone can't establish it. Your final offer depends on the verified weight and gold content, the gold spot price shown in your written report, the payout rate, and our final evaluation. See our dental gold assay process for details. Your written report shows the weight, gold percentage, gold spot price used, payout rate, and payout calculation.
Start with your estimated payout. It is based on the weight, gold content, and spot price used in the calculator. The estimated payout is an illustration, not a quote. When you compare offers from any buyer, ask what weight, gold content, gold spot price, and payout rate the offer is based on. At Dental Gold Experts, we melt your material and test it using XRF to determine its gold content. Your offer is calculated using the measured gold content, the gold spot price shown in your written report, and the applicable payout rate. Run your numbers first, then make your calls.
How We Calculate Dental Gold Values
The estimates this calculator produces are based on two inputs you control: the alloy type you select and the spot price you enter. The math is straightforward — total weight × gold purity percentage × spot price per troy ounce = melt value. The Dental Gold Experts estimated payout is then calculated from that melt value using an illustrative payout rate. It is not an offer or a guarantee.
What a calculator cannot do is confirm the actual gold content of your specific pieces. Dental alloys vary significantly even within the same classification, and porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns require separation before accurate weighing. That's why every real offer from Dental Gold Experts is based on the gold content of your material: Blake melts it, then analyzes multiple spots on the melted material by XRF (X-ray fluorescence) to determine its gold content. The calculator gives you a reliable benchmark range; the melt-and-assay determines the gold content your offer is based on. Read our full guide on how we assay dental gold, including what XRF testing measures and how it protects sellers from lowball estimates.
For dental offices managing accumulated scrap over time, maintaining a proper dental scrap inventory log ensures your lot is accurately documented before submission. Practices looking to standardize their collection process can also reference our step-by-step dental scrap handling procedure for guidance on storage, labeling, and shipment preparation.
Dental Gold Calculator — Alloy Reference Guide
The accuracy of any dental gold calculator depends entirely on using the right alloy purity for your material. The American Dental Association classifies dental casting alloys into three tiers — knowing which tier your material falls into is the most important input in the tool above.
| Alloy Classification | Typical Gold % | Appearance | Value Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-Noble Full Cast | 60–80% | Yellow/gold colored | Highest |
| High-Noble PFM Coping | 52–65% | Yellow, thin metal | High |
| Noble Full Cast | 40–55% | Yellow to pale yellow | Moderate |
| Noble PFM Coping | No set gold minimum (calculator assumes 40%) | Silver/white metal | Moderate |
| Predominantly Base | 10–25% | Silver-gray | Low |
| Base Metal | 0% | Silver-gray | None |
Not sure which alloy type you have? Full-cast yellow crowns are almost always High-Noble. Silver-colored or white metal pieces are typically Noble PFM or base metal. If you're not sure, run the calculator with more than one alloy type to see a range — appearance and color can't establish gold content; only melt-and-assay can. The LBMA daily gold benchmark is the pricing reference used by professional buyers when evaluating any dental gold lot.
Dental Gold Calculator — Frequently Asked Questions
This dental gold calculator is mathematically precise based on your inputs — but the accuracy of your result depends on the accuracy of the alloy purity you select. If you're using estimated alloy types, treat the output as a directional range, not a guaranteed number.
Only a melt-and-assay can determine the actual gold content of your material. This tool is best used to understand the range of value and to verify whether an offer you receive is reasonable — not as a substitute for a proper assay.
Your estimated payout is based on the weight, estimated gold content, and spot price used in the calculator, with an illustrative payout rate applied. Your final offer is determined after melting and assay. This estimate is not a guarantee or a binding offer.
The calculator fills in the latest available gold price in US dollars per troy ounce from Gold-API.com, an indicative reference rather than a dealer quote, and shows when the price was last checked. You can replace it at any time with today's gold spot price from a current source such as Kitco.com. Gold moves throughout the trading day — even a $50 difference affects your estimate meaningfully on a larger lot.
Yes — if your piece has porcelain fused to metal (PFM), only the metal coping underneath contains gold. The porcelain adds weight with no gold value. For a PFM crown, use roughly 30–40% of the total piece weight as the metal coping weight — not the full crown weight — when entering your number.
When you sell to us, we sort your material and remove as much non-metal material as practical before weighing and melting, so your offer is based on the gold content of the melted material, not an estimate.
Yes — the tool works for any lot size. Enter the combined weight of all pieces and select the alloy type that best matches your mix. For a mixed lot with multiple alloy types, run it separately for each group and add the results together for a total estimate.
Running your lot through this tool before shipping gives you a benchmark for evaluating buyer offers. The piece count field also lets you see the per-piece average payout for an accumulated lot. If you're building up scrap over time, our free dental scrap inventory log makes it easy to track pieces between shipments. Practices looking to standardize their process can also download our Dental Office Scrap Gold SOP for step-by-step handling guidance.
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Dental Gold Experts provides a free prepaid, insured USPS shipping label, a free melt-and-assay with a written report, and payment issued within 24 hours after acceptance.
Want to understand exactly how we determine value? Review our How We Assay Dental Gold guide.