When you eat from a fork that has touched aluminum, does your mouth feel "energized"?!
Question: When you eat from a fork that has touched aluminum, does your mouth feel "energized".?
I have fillings.. I think this is why it does this to me.. I can't eat from any metal utensil that has touched aluminum foil because when I put it in my mouth or touch it with my tongue, I can actually feel the charge! What has been your experience.?Health Question & Answer
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Author: ranger
Text: Can any one tell me why we get like electric shocks or whatever
when we chew on a piece of aluminum foil (with silver fillings in a couple of
teeth).?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: Joe Schultz
Text: That is exactly what you get......an electric shock.. The filling is
made of an amalgam of mercury and either tin or silver.. When the aluminum
foil touches the filling, a galvanic cell is created in the mouth.. Aluminum
is the anode, the filling is the cathode and the saliva is the electrolyte
'salt bridge..' The contact essentially short circuits the cell and a small
amount of current flows which is sensed by the nerves in the teeth.. There is
the pain you feel..Health Question & Answer
Author: ranger
Text: Can any one tell me why we get like electric shocks or whatever
when we chew on a piece of aluminum foil (with silver fillings in a couple of
teeth).?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: Joe Schultz
Text: That is exactly what you get......an electric shock.. The filling is
made of an amalgam of mercury and either tin or silver.. When the aluminum
foil touches the filling, a galvanic cell is created in the mouth.. Aluminum
is the anode, the filling is the cathode and the saliva is the electrolyte
'salt bridge..' The contact essentially short circuits the cell and a small
amount of current flows which is sensed by the nerves in the teeth.. There is
the pain you feel..Health Question & Answer