OBJECTIVES Fever in young infants frequently triggers a laboratory evaluation because of the increased likelihood of serious bacterial infections. Reported fever by methods other than rectal thermometry is of concern. This study evaluates the validity of perceived, pacifier, and temporal artery (TA) temperatures. METHODS A convenience sample of 200 babies younger than 3 months of age presenti...

Castilho SD, Rocha MA. Pacifier habit: history and multidisciplinary view. J Pediatr (Rio J) 2009;85:480-9 [Article in English, Portuguese] The objectives of this study were to review the history of pacifiers using a multidisciplinary literature review, searching for pros and cons of pacifier use, with the purpose of providing health professionals with arguments for parents requesting guidance....

Two hundred eighteen children ages 24-59 months participated in a study to examine the effect of pacifier use on the occlusion of the primary dentition. A questionnaire was used to gain information on habit history. Eighty-two children were current or former users of functional exercisers, 38 had a history of conventional pacifier use, and 98 had no history of oral habits. Compared to children ...

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 cro...

PURPOSE To verify the efficacy of recreational strategies of awareness for spontaneous removal of finger sucking or pacifier habits in children. METHODS Fifteen children (nine female and six male), with ages ranging from 4 to 8 years (mean age of 5.6 years) participated in the study. Recreational strategies were developed for the removal of oral habits. The program consisted of ten one-hour w...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test a novel pacifier (Dentistar) regarding the development of anterior open bite in infants. METHODS One hundred twenty-nine newborn children were randomly assigned to 2 experimental groups: NUK (N; N =73); and Dentistar (D; N=56. Children (N=42) who did not use a pacifier served as the control (C). At 10- to 26-months old, the children were re-examin...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between pacifier use and the duration of exclusive breast-feeding in the first six months of age, among poor children with unfavourable birth weight, from an underdeveloped region in Brazil. METHOD Prospective cohort study with infants followed from birth to 6 months of age. Healthy children born with unfavourable birth weight (<3,000), being exclusivel...

The study evaluated mothers of preterm infants who were discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with regard to their personal characteristics and those of their infants as well as the role that social support plays in deciding whether to introduce a pacifier during the first two years of the infant’s life. This longitudinal study was based on the Bioecological Theory of Human De...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess unilateral posterior crossbite, sucking habits, orofacial functions, and otolaryngological findings in the deciduous dentition. These findings would allow us to establish a preventive program for posterior crossbite, based on interceptive treatment at an early stage of dental development. We would determine the predictive value for posterior cros...