Evaluation of the effects of orthodontic pacifiers on the primary dentitions of 24- to 59-month-old children: preliminary study.

Abstract

This study was designed to compare the occlusions of 24- to 59-month-old children who used orthodontic or conventional pacifiers to the occlusions of a group of controls who had no sucking habits. Information on the habits was collected by parental questionnaires. Ninety-five children were examined for malocclusions involving overbite, overjet, canine, and molar relationships, and posterior crossbites. Users of orthodontic pacifiers had statistically significantly greater overjets, and there was a significantly higher proportion of subjects with open bite in the conventional pacifier group. There was a trend toward a greater number of subjects in the control and orthodontic pacifier group with overbites less than or equal to 50%. These differences were not clinically significant, however. There appeared to be only minor differences between the occlusions of the two pacifier groups.

• Authors: S M Adair, M Milano, J C Dushku
• Journal: Pediatric dentistry (Pediatr Dent) 1992 Jan-Feb Vol. 14 Issue 1 Pg. 13-8 ISSN: 0164-1263 [Print] United States
• PMID: 1502109 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)

Topics

• Child, Preschool
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant Care (instrumentation)
• Malocclusion (etiology, prevention & control)
• Orthodontics, Preventive (instrumentation)
• Sucking Behavior
• Time Factors