2006-09-21 09:58:43 · 14 answers · asked by Daniel H 2 in Health ➔ Dental
I'm a dentist.
It's a process called galvanization. It occurs when you have silver fillings.
Basically, the aluminum foil and the amalgam, when surrounded by your saliva, develop an electric potential between eachother and current passes between them. It's a process very much like a battery.
2006-09-23 14:21:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Chewing Aluminum Foil
2016-11-14 08:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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If you have no fillings it won't. It is only when it comes into contact with metal based fillings you will have problems as it sets up a galvanic cell in your mouth and produces electricity.
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2016-06-29 16:21:24 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The aluminum foil is reacting with your fillings. The saliva and the two dissimilar metals are actually making a little battery and the minute amount of electrical current generated are apparently enough to shock you.
FOr a supercharged version of the same thing, touch the tip of your tongue to the terminals of a 9-volt battery. Pretty similar, but on a large scale, isn't it?
2006-09-21 13:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 9⤊ 3⤋
First off do you have fillings? if you do then the metal from the aluminum & the metal in your tooth will have a strange reaction with eachother. I've tried that before too and it kills.
2006-09-21 11:13:12 · answer #8 · answered by angeleyez410 1 · 6⤊ 2⤋
because it makes ur teeth bleed and it hurts
2015-12-22 10:50:17 · answer #9 · answered by Camryn 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's your teeth's way of telling you to stop chewing aluminum foil.
2006-09-21 12:07:47 · answer #10 · answered by Jackie B 2 · 12⤊ 6⤋