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Volume 2 Issue 3 (July-September, 2014)

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EDUCATING PARENTS ABOUT PROS AND CONS OF USING PACIFIERS
Narendra Singh Malik

Year: 2014 // Volume: 2/ / Issue: 3/ / Page: 70-73
Department of Pedodontics, Jodhpur Dental College Jodhpur Rajasthan
Corresponding Author: Dr. Narendra Singh Malik, Reader, Department Of Pedodontics, Jodhpur Dental College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
This article can be cited as: Malik NS. Educating Parents about Pros and Cons of Using Pacifiers. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2014;2(3):70-73.

Many times parents are seen worriedly reporting the dentist about the malocclusion of their child. But they are usually not aware that pacifiers adopted by them to satisfy their wards are the reason behind this. So it is the need of the hour to make parents aware of the exact time for intervention of the non-sucking habits and thus preventing the potential harm to the oral structures. Thus, having an oral habit is not a tragic situation, but needs to be stopped at the appropriate time with an appropriate method to get a good long-term result.

 
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