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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. Read the rest of this entry »