American Dental Association Response to Pacifier Study
Should parents suck on a pacifier before baby in order to boost the child’s bacterial diversity and foster immunity? The ADA issued a statement May 6 in response to a study about the immunological benefits of adult saliva recently published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study “does not provide the full picture that adult saliva may also contain bacteria that causes decay,” says the American Dental Association.
