Metal taste from old school cavity when smoking.

[bean82]

Hey people!

This might sound wierd and I don't know if this is the right section of the forum, for this question.

I've been smoking for app 15 years. The first 13 years, I mainly smoked hash, but for the last couple of years I've been smoking bud only.
I have this old metal tooth filling in my mouth. Some times when I place a joint on my lips, near the filling, and take a puff I get this metal taste in the area around the filling.
Has anyone ever experienced something like that? I've taked to a few of my friends who still have a filling like that, but no one knows what I'm talking about. How a bout you guys? Or am I just crazy?

Oh yeah, also a drawing. Everything is better explained with a drawing.

Edit: Completely forgot to mention that smoking hash never brings that metal taste. So I guess poorly flushed buds are the reason.

 

[bean82]

Btw I'm thinking maybe the weed haven' been properly flushed?

 

[fungzyme]

Or am I just crazy?

Maybe it's mercury poisoning from the filling...

I'm just kidding. Unless you're running a blowtorch across that filling it
shouldnt be giving you a metallic taste. If it was, you'd be tasting it all the time (and I'd be suing that dentist).

More likely something in your weed (not proper flush), or even your papers or something given off by the lighter or match you're using IMO.

 

[bean82]

Maybe it's mercury poisoning from the filling...

I'm just kidding. Unless you're running a blowtorch across that filling it
shouldnt be giving you a metallic taste. If it was, you'd be tasting it all the time (and I'd be suing that dentist).

More likely something in your weed (not proper flush), or even your papers or something given off by the lighter or match you're using IMO.

Haha, mercury poisoning. That would suck!
I'm smoking on raw papers. They should be pretty clean of most of the nasty stuff. Been using the same brand of lighters for at least 5 years, and only get the metal taste sometimes.
I'm guessing the weed isn't flushed well enough. I just started growing after a break of 6-7 years, so I've been buying my MJ from this (kind of) market place run by Hells Angels and local gangs. They get their weed from cash croppers, and alot of them are "money over everything", I guess.
Can't wait till I harvest in 8-10 weeks!

Thank you for your input!

 

[Puffaluffagus]

Amalgam metals fillings are trash, they use them because they are cheap, and that's what the insurance companies want.

I had all my metal fillings removed and replaced with porcelain crowns.

Did you know that when they throw away the old metal fillings they have to use hazardous waste disposal protocols.

 

[bean82]

yeah, I know they're crap. It's a really old filling, I would guess 15-17 years old. From before they started using those plastic fillings or what ever material it is. The one they dry with UV light, you know?

I know I should get it replaced because for various reasons, but being back on the school bench doesn't leave much money for dentist bills. They're extremely expensive in Denmark. We have free health care... except for dentists. Stupidity.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

What are you eating when this happens?

Bacteria, sugars, acids + the addition of heat?

Anyone with amalgam fillings (and money. *sigh*) would do well to find a dentist that does PROPER filling extractions and re-fills with porcelain or whatnot. This means protection for your breathing and suction during the entire drilling/reaming process on each filling.

That's mercury you're messing with.

Stay Safe!

 

[bean82]

That is a really good question, Hydro-Soil! I'm gonna take some (mental) notes, on what I've been eating when this happens.

Actually I just woke up to find that school is cancelled today, so I'm gonna test this out right away. Gonna wake n bake, before I eat something. That way I can get an idea if its the metals reacting to heat+sugar+acids, or if it's the heat from the smoke alone making the filling react.

Thank you for your thoughts, H-S!

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

I have this old metal tooth filling in my mouth. Some times when I place a joint on my lips, near the filling, and take a puff I get this metal taste in the area around the filling.

So you've made it a point to hold the joint in a variety of positions, and only when you're sucking smoke across that filling do you get the metallic taste?

Maybe your taste buds adjacent to the filling have been altered and sensitized somehow. Nerve damage from the mercury?

 

[bean82]

So you've made it a point to hold the joint in a variety of positions, and only when you're sucking smoke across that filling do you get the metallic taste?

Yes. Or mostly yes. I only get the taste when I suck smoke across the filling, but it's far from every time. It seems like some smoke causes it, while others don't. That's why I'm suspecting the filling to react whit left over fert chems, from pour flushing.
I smoked ciggs till recently and that never gave me that metal taste in my mouth. That is why I'm suspecting the bud, I guess.

Maybe your taste buds adjacent to the filling have been altered and sensitized somehow. Nerve damage from the mercury?

I really hope not!

As I wrote a bit earlier, I have the opportunity to wake n bake today, and am currently puffin a spliff. I've smoked 2/3 and is now getting the metal taste. I guess that points towards heat and left over ferts making the filling react? I mean, the closer the ember comes to my mouth, the warmer the smoke... I few days ago I was puffin on Purple Haze, with no reactions what so ever. Then I went and bought som e Hawaiin snow and now I get the metal taste.

I can't wait till harvest. Then this wont be a problem.
Looking on the bright side, one could say that I have a build in flush meter. Want to know if your weed has been properly flushed? Let me have a smoke

 

[Puffaluffagus]

Anyone with amalgam fillings (and money. *sigh*) would do well to find a dentist that does PROPER filling extractions and re-fills with porcelain or whatnot. This means protection for your breathing and suction during the entire drilling/reaming process on each filling.

That's mercury you're messing with.

Stay Safe!

You are right about the cost.
Just so you have an idea of what it runs here in the states
I paid 22K to get all mine removed and replaced with porcelain crowns, with an average cost of about $1200 per tooth.

 

[wordtree]

maybe consider a trip to S. America and find a good dentist while there? Would be cheaper and likely more enjoyable.

paz

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

If you are a heavy smoker and you've been regularly inhaling with a joint or pipe in this one specific position, consider the possibility that you've just cooked that spot on your tongue, and it has nothing to do with the filling.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Nah... cooking a spot on your tongue would only reduce the number or activity of the tastebuds there. It wouldn't promote sensitivity.

22k... wow!

Stay Safe!

 

[lost in a sea]

are you sure your gums aren't bleeding or anything?

you may have a inflammation of the gingiva and the taste could be a mix of septic blood and toxins..

it happens more than you would think(in fact it happens to everyone at some point in their lives) especially since smoking reduces blood flow to tissues and makes gums a pale pink instead of red colour.. the inflamed gums stop protecting the root as well as they should as a gap forms and increases and things get worse..

the taste is most often metallic..

 

[bean82]

You are right about the cost.
Just so you have an idea of what it runs here in the states
I paid 22K to get all mine removed and replaced with porcelain crowns, with an average cost of about $1200 per tooth.

22k It's even more expensive around here. But wages are higher than in the US, so in the end it's probably the same. Way too expensive!!

are you sure your gums aren't bleeding or anything?

you may have a inflammation of the gingiva and the taste could be a mix of septic blood and toxins..

it happens more than you would think(in fact it happens to everyone at some point in their lives) especially since smoking reduces blood flow to tissues and makes gums a pale pink instead of red colour.. the inflamed gums stop protecting the root as well as they should as a gap forms and increases and things get worse..

the taste is most often metallic..

No bleeding at all. Sure of that.
And I should probably try to be a bit more specific. It's the actual tooth that tastes of metal. I'm really suspecting left over ferts. Unflushed bud. Seems the most logical reason to me!

Thank you everyone for your thoughts!

 

[lost in a sea]

pretty possible ive seen that before, only if its its a ferts flushing thing i would have thought it would happen when you smoke on the other side of your mouth..

 

[bean82]

If I smoke with the other side of the mouth, the smoke will have cooled when it hits the filling, I guess. Also, only some weed causes this.

 

[Hammerhead]

what if you smoke out of a water pipe or vaporizer??Is it only with a blunt?

 

[lost in a sea]

yeah but the smoke shouldn't be reacting with metal and creating a taste at all, kinda no matter how hot.. you sure the filling isn't just failing?