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In order not to undermine the smooth development of occlusion American Dental experts recommend that mothers to remove the pacifier for children over 2 years of age and if you can not make them stop sucking first 3 years of asking the help of a pediatrician. To understand why there is a need to interrupt the activity of early sucking, are known the natural changes that occur in the first year of life on the nutritional mechanism.
Habits flawed – finger sucking – pacifier – dummy
The activity of suction to the baby is not only functional nutrition but more generally to his total organism well-being of mind, it gives peace and security.  At this time of life can be considered physiological, since the sucking of the thumb may already present in fourteen weeks of intrauterine life.
E ‘, however, that after the first year of this activity is kept to a minimum, until its final termination within two years, because otherwise it could act as an agent deformans of dental arches and jaw growth.
A study conducted in the U.S. and published in the Journal of the American Dental Association showed that a malocclusion in the back of the mouth, in the molars, is present in 20% of children who continue to use the pacifier or suck his finger up to 4 years of age, in 13% of those who quit 2-3 years, and even in a small percentage (7%) of children who suck up to 1-2 years.  In children who continue to suck after 4 years is too frequent protusione of the incisors.To avoid compromising an optimal development of occlusion American Dental experts recommend that mothers to remove the pacifier for children over 2 years of age and if you can not make them stop sucking the first 3 years, seek the help of a pediatrician.
To understand why there is a need to interrupt the activity of early sucking, are known the natural change that occurs in the first year of life on the nutritional mechanism.
Neonatal nutrition: feeding
The oral neonatal nutrition is accomplished in a totally unconscious, with the characters of neuromotor unconditional reflex.  The baby just after birth began an exploratory course in which, in response to specific stimuli, is oriented with the face towards the mother’s womb, grabs the mouth with the nipple and start eating “stern”, a method of extracting and swallowing of breast milk similar to that which we indicate as suction after having sealed the nipple between tongue and palate wants milk with rhythmic pumping action, carried out by lowering and raising the mandible.  Chaired what a genetically determined nervous system that contains all the information necessary to the conduct of nutritional newborn child, the functional survival.
Nutrition adult type: chewing and swallowing
Unlike oral nutrition in the neonatal neuromotor reflex component is already mature at birth, the adult type, however, has matured during weaning through a long and complex process in which the proprioceptive receptors of the tongue stimulated by milk teeth in eruption: when erompono teeth incisors dairy tactile stimuli that the language they receive from the contact lead to retreat from the previous position of the edentulous jaw arches, functional to the stern, and to bring within the deciduous dental arches.
The gradual increase in texture of foods during weaning contributes to the maturation of the neuromotor mechanisms of adult nutrition (being the most appropriate infant ingestion of liquids), which comprises a complete maturation of two distinct and sequential processes that the ‘chewing and swallowing. ”
In many children, this transition is nearly complete between 12 and 15 months.

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