Why does aluminum foil make a zap feeling in your teeth?
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Ever do taht experiment in school with two metals in a lemon, and it produces electrcity? It's the same thing.
The silver filling metal pulls electrons from the aluminum, and they travel through the saliva in your mouth into your tooth.. giving you a bit of a shock.
It's called galvanization, I beleive.
maybe its just your electric personality.
i haaattteee that feeling, it only happens whhen u have a filling.
Killfoot has the answer for this question. Its call a galvanic reaction in dentistry, two similar but dislike metals cause an electric shock reaction.
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