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We have been using silver for thousands of years. Silver was used to prepare jewelry, artistic decorative items, utensils and in medicine in olden days. Silver is used in electronic industry mainly in modern days. Since silver has good conductivity, more and more electrical items are starting to use silver, increasing the demand for silver and skyrocketing silver prices today. Medical industry also has started to use large amount of silver just like electronic industry. All this influences the constant increase in silver price per gram.

Dental fillings are made using amalgams. These amalgams are prepared using powdered silver and mercury. Though gold is also used sometimes, silver is much cheaper and a bit harder than gold. Hence the use of silver amalgams is increasing greatly in dentistry. Silver ions are known to have good germicidal effects. Their toxic nature kills various bacteria and viruses very quickly. Hence they are used in bandages and gels for their antimicrobial property.

Increased usage of silver in medical industry contributes a lot to general silver price, resulting in the increase of silver prices today. The SSD cream or the Silver sulfadiazine cream is considered as an effective antibiotic. Lot of silver is used to produce this cream. This cream prevented the spread of infections among soldiers during the world war. Ancient medicine forms like homeopathy used silver compounds extensively. Bacterial infections in equipments used for advanced surgeries and emergency ward items are avoided by coating them with pure silver.

One good example is the silver coating in the Endo-tracheal breathing tube. Pure silver is necessary for this. The increased silver usage in such core fields increases the silver price per gram indirectly. Mild amount of silver alloys are mixed in many drugs we consume. Patients suffering from bladder problems are subjected to a procedure called catheterization. The catheters used for this procedure will be inserted into the patient's organs to extract the urine into a separate bag.

Studies have proved silver alloy catheters keep the patient safe from many infections which might occur when catheters made of other materials are used. So many such medical equipments have started to consume more and more silver resulting in steady increase of silver price per gram. Silver prices today are very much higher than older times. Just like many other industries, medical field too have influenced this rise indirectly.