A pacifier that won't mess up teeth??!!

I was looking at the most recent journal to come across my desk when an article on pacifiers and open bites caught my attention. Apparently there is a new pacifier from "Dentistar" that claims to avoid causing open bites. So researchers compared 42 kids with a NUK, 42 kids with a Dentistar, and 36 with no pacifier. The Dentistar significantly reduced the open bite over the NUK at mean age 16 months. So while limited pacifier use is still best, if your child is pacifier addicted, you may want to consider trying out the Dentistar design. Or recommendation, no matter what pacifier you choose, is to keep the pacifier reserved for times when you child is overtired and overstimulated and needs pacifying. It should not be a babysitter or, as our friends across the pond call it, a dummy.