The Air Force Safety Center is a Field Operating Agency with headquarters at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
The Finnish researchers are unsure why the use of a pacifier might lead to an ear infection, but theorized it may have something to do with the change in pressure equilibrium inside the ear caused by the sucking.
Often the cause can be bacterial in which case it is easily treated with antibiotics but when a Labrador ear infection is the result of other causes than treatment isn't always so straight forward.