Fred Cuellar, The Diamond Guy®, and Dr. Mark Mehaffey of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (in Houston, Texas) discuss the truth about removing wedding bands in an emergency room situation. Wedding bands created with gold, platinum, palladium, silver, titanium, or stainless steel can all be removed fairly quickly with a diamond-tipped cutting saw. However, wedding bands made in cobalt and tungsten are a little tricky. A cobalt wedding band has to be cut in two areas to be removed, while tungsten is literally shattered with vice grip pliers.

View Dangerous Metals: The Truth About Tungsten and Cobalt Unveiled.

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