🍼 How Prolonged Pacifier Use Can Affect Your Child’s Teeth 👶🦷 Pacifiers can be comforting for infants—but when used too long, they can start to shape how a child’s mouth develops. Here’s what can happen with prolonged pacifier use (especially beyond age 2–3): 👉 Open bite: The front teeth don’t touch when the mouth is closed. 👉 Crossbite: The upper teeth may sit inside the lower teeth. 👉 Speech issues: Tongue placement and pronunciation can be affected. 👉 Changes in jaw growth: The palate

Good Benefits of using a Pacifier Pacifiers satisfy an infant’s innate non-nutritive sucking reflex, which has a calming effect and helps regulate stress and self-soothing.. Clinical studies associate pacifier use during sleep with a reduced risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), possibly by improving airway patency and increasing arousal from sleep. Pacifiers can also aid sleep onset, reduce crying, and provide comfort without unnecessary feeding. Compared to thumb-sucking, pacifier use i