Metal taste from new fillings

MoonDancer

This might sound really wierd, I've had a few fillings done in the past few weeks, work done once a week. The whole day I've been getting a horrible metal taste from a new filling & it feels like when you get a piece of tin foil on a metal filling it gives a bit of a shock, I'm getting a slight sensation like that. It's been a week almost and I'm still tasting the metal from the filling.
Anyone hear of this?

Big_G

You may be having a galvanic interaction between fillings. This is caused by a small current being created between metal fillings. It is only theoretical, there is no published evidence of quality that says that it happens. The only way to fix it is to have the filling replaced with a non-conductive material such as composite (white filling).

btkm8unsl0w5r4

I commonly get patients reporting this...usually goes away after a few days. It the metalic fillings interacting with older fillings and saliva. More common with low copper old fashoned amalgam not so much with new zero gamma 2 amalgam. If you have both kinds in your mouth maybe this explains the interactions. As big_g says nothing is really known, but I can tell you it is of no consiquence.

DublinWriter

I used to get this from the amalgam fillings (since replaced) I got in the 80's in Ireland.

My dentist at the time said that it was fairly common and that it would go away once an oxide formed on the surface of the filling (when the silver turns to black).

MoonDancer

Thanks for the replies!
I have an older sliver filling on the bottom tooth & a new sliver one on my top molar and right beside that I have a light grey one that he used a light gun on. So I don't know whats going on. I hope it goes away on it's own, it's driving me nuts. The sensation is just horrible. It's not constant at least.

MoonDancer

That sensation is gone now Thank god!