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Upper airway size while sucking on a pacifier in an infant with micrognathia.

Tonkin SL, Vogel SA, Gunn AJ

New Zealand Cot Death Association, Auckland, New Zealand.

In an infant with micrognathia, who was being evaluated after an apparent life-threatening event, respiration timed lateral radiographs showed an increase in the width of the middle airway space during inspiration from 2 mm without the pacifier to 9 mm while sucking on a pacifier. This observation is consistent with the hypothesis that the well-documented association between the pacifier use and reduced risk of sudden infant death syndrome may be at least in part related to changes in airway size.

Published 18 December 2007 in J Paediatr Child Health, 44(1): 78-9.
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