When a body is cremated, what happens to the teeth, do they burn completely?!


Question: No but they are significantly weakened. As with partially cremated bones, they are ground down. Any metallic compounds gold teeth, rings etc. are removed before the grinding process are sieved


Answers: No but they are significantly weakened. As with partially cremated bones, they are ground down. Any metallic compounds gold teeth, rings etc. are removed before the grinding process are sieved

yup

grind them to dust

everything is turned to ashes

No, and neither does the skull and some of the larger bones, which are then ground up.

yeah they do.

Yes they do.

teeth are just like all the bones in our body.

When we got my cat cremated we had a look at his ashes and there wasnt anything else but his ashes

Not normally. Along with larger bone fragments they are normally pulverised mechanically after cremation.

no teeth are bone just like the skeleton neither burn completley,the last stage is putting the ashes and bones through a grinder.

my friend allen was cremated and they removed his gold crowns and cremated the rest

The undertakers extract them prior to cremation - they have a wholesale deal going with the tooth-fairy.

They don't get much per tooth (less than 50p), but the numbers involved means it's a tidy little earner.

yep
they do

Teeth are the strongest bones in the body (enamel) and like the larger bones as others have cited they don't completely burn. They and the other larger bones must be reduced to ash by a grinding machine at the back of the furnace. Very grim indeed.





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