Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — Dentists Use Much Gold. [ARTICLE]

Dentists Use Much Gold.

If there is a scarcity of gold during the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries dentists, according to a German statistician, will probably be more to blame than any one else. He asserts that they use every year in filling teeth and other work about 800 kilograms of gold, the value of which Is SBOO,OOO, and that at this rate the graveyards of the various eoun-, tries will contain in 300 years from now $160,000,000 worth of gold.