A professional who recovers precious metals, such as gold, platinum, and palladium from scrap dentures and extracted teeth, using furnace, retort, and laboratory equipment. Responsibilities include:

• Breaks scrap dentures, using hammer, and removes precious metals.
• Weighs each type metal and records weights.
• Places metal in retort and positions retort in furnace to melt metal particles.
• Turns valves to adjust temperature of furnace.
• Removes retort and pours molten metal solution into beaker, using tongs.
• Adds specified amounts of chemicals to molten metal solution to separate metal from solution.
• Pours solution through filter to recover precious dental metals.