When you eat from a fork that has touched aluminum, does your mouth feel "energized"?

Question

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?

Answer 1

from google:

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.