On 28 Aug 2005 19:50:08 -0700, "Caledonia"
wrote:
and that parents of
pacifier-using babies may be likely to clean the pacifier my using
their own saliva...but that's the armchair analysis, totally
guesstimate),

That is what my former dentist told me. I got bad teeth from my mom.
If I had any clue that could pass it on to the children, I would have
been more careful about swapping spit with them. So far the kids'
teeth are fine, but mine didn't start going bad until I was grown.
Marie