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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Pacifier Sizing as a Prescription for Better Oral Health Outcomes for Infants: A Call to Action.

David A Tesini, Clive Friedman, Adithya Kethu, Kristin W Hendricks

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David A TesiniDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Clive FriedmanDentistry Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Schulich School of Medicine, London, ON N6A5C1, Canada.
Adithya KethuToothprints Inc., Hopkinton, MA 01748, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-0860-6583
Kristin W HendricksPrivate Pediatric Dental Practice, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sucking is essential for feeding and impacts the development of the cranio-facial-respiratory complex (CFRC). Non-nutritive sucking on a pacifier causes palatal narrowing and modifies the natural balanced relationship between intraoral pressure, peristaltic action of the tongue and the palate. Advanced engineering models have shown that malocclusions caused by pacifier use, are often a result of improper sizing. The sizing of pacifiers has historically been based on chronological age.

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finite element analysisgrowth and developmentoral health of infantpacifierpacifier impactpacifier size

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PMID41007122
PMCPMC12469228

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