like buggery when you touch a filling with something silver ?
2006-08-23 03:44:23 · 16 answers · asked by senoirpob 2 in Health ➔ Dental
Galvanic reaction caused by two different metals being in touch with each other in a conducting solution(saliva)
You get a very small electric current.
Sometimes if a Gold Crown is next to an Amalgam filling it can cause corrosion.
PS Buggery doesn't hurt too much if you take it gently with lots of lube.
2006-08-23 03:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by bobbi b 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
bobbi b is correct about galvanic charges. You are making a tiny little battery with your filling, the silver and your saliva. You can look up information on galvanic charges or the electromotive series of elements to learn more. When you have a new filling next to an old filling or in contact with a gold crown, this will eventually go away, but I don't know about when you keep poking it with a silver fork.
2006-08-23 10:56:25 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a clue what buggery is. Explain to this yank.
anyone
2006-08-23 10:52:20 · answer #3 · answered by Glune 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know never tried buggery, mabye you should see a dentist as your filling needs replacing
2006-08-23 10:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jon Tickle explained this on that rubbish brainiac spin off. Apparently it means your dentist is rubbish, they're supposed to insulate the base of the filling to protect your nerve. So your dentist has saved about 3p and 5 mins to rip off you and the NHS.
2006-08-23 15:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term buggery originated in medieval Europe as an insult used to describe the rumoured same-sex sexual practices of the heretics from the Buggre sect. This sect originated in medieval Bulgaria, where its followers were called bogomils, but when they spread out of the country they were called buggres
This is all wat i know . . .
2006-08-23 10:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by sailesh s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ahhha this is a small electrical charge
to do with the foil (Silver) being a condutor and one type of metal and the filing the other, along with Saliva (an Alkalide) hey presto...
2006-08-23 10:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by Banderes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The dentist's make fillings reactive on purpose because they are sadists.
I'm thinking about becoming one.
2006-08-23 18:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It hurts because you may have mercury for a filling. They used mercury in the old days. not like now, they use some kind of porcelain stuff now. mercury is what made me brake a tooth., that was what the put in my tooth when i was little.
2006-08-23 12:18:45 · answer #9 · answered by phcountryangel 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It unlikley it'll be silver as that is quite unreactive, it'll more than likely be tin, from foil wrapping which is reactive
2006-08-23 10:52:53 · answer #10 · answered by poli_b2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋