eli5 – Why do teeth tingle and ache around metal or scraping noises (I.e a spoon in a bowel)

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eli5 – Why do teeth tingle and ache around metal or scraping noises (I.e a spoon in a bowel)

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I’ve never thought about this, but I suppose it is crosstalk from the temporal lobe, where there is audio processing, onto the primary somatosensory cortex, which does the sensations around the mouth.