Several videos on social networks show adults with licks in the mouth. If they are perceived by their followers as being comforting, the lollipops can cause a degradation of oral health.
In recent months, on social networks, adults have been displayed with a pacifier in the mouth. A gesture revealing a desire to return to childhood.
The followers of the Small Object to Succer evoke several reasons behind this practice, which was born in China and exported to the international via Tiktok, says TF1. Some explain that it reduces their stress. Others even say that the pacifier helps them quit smoking.
@graziafrance you too when you stress you take a pacifier? ? Because it is up to you that it is the new trend that is all the rage in China! Anti-stress or Madeleine de Proust, obviously some do not want to leave their child’s soul. And you, what do you think of this trend ?? #DecryPtage #tendance #tetine #chine #Adultes ♬ Let it happen Ending – Henkess1
However, this fashion is revealing of a deeper psychological mechanism. Doctor Tayeb Hamdi, medical researcher in political and health systems, evokes the Swiss daily The morning An adult “infantilization”, a phenomenon that would have experienced an intensification with the COVVI-19 crisis.
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“Confined for several weeks, adults have found comfort in objects related to their childhood, often associated with reassuring memories,” he said. This “regression” is “a way to face a perceived reality as unstable, anxiety -provoking and difficult to face,” continued the doctor.
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A risk to oral health
But does the pacifier really reduce stress? On this point, opinions differ. Cited by TF1, the Laurence Roche therapist explains that the lollipop “brings a feeling of comfort and safety. It is a natural way of appeasement for the toddler”.
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On the other hand, Doctor Hamdi recalls that he “there is no evidence that this improves sleep or reduces anxiety. Testimonies go in this direction, but they remain isolated.”
In addition, the pacifier has consequences on oral health, recalls The morning. Its prolonged use can cause teeth alignment disorders, lesions at the palate, as well as pain or tensions at the jaw.
In addition, repeated suction can also cause pain in the cervical level.