If you look at the science, the science says, it's extinction. Put the baby in when it's awake. Leave the room. They'll cry, of course. Don't go in all night long. The problem with that, is well, sometimes it doesn't work. Most of the parents that I work with can't do it. It breaks their heart. And so they go in, and they start being inconsistent. And they cause more problems.

Brandon is nearly three, and continues to use a pacifier. It has become replacement for self-soothing and is beginning to affect his bite. His mother, not recognizing the correlation, takes her darling child to the dentist for a checkup. Once there, she finds out that by allowing him to continue with this habit is affecting his bite. She becomes angry but, later, begins to wonder what she should have done differently.