How did you managed to wean your child off the dumy and at what age?

[Bilin]

I have a 18months child. She has been using dumy since she was born. I tried weaning her off when she was a year old but was unsuccessful. I am now trying again to wean her off the dumy, last night she cried for about 30minutes for the dumy before she eventually fell asleep.
She normally uses the dumy at night.

DD was 2.5 when we took her to Doctor as we thought she had impatigo (turns out it was a coldsore). I was concerned as dummy was causing her to slaver on her sore, so I told her (and DP) that Doctor advised not to use dummy again as as they were making her chin sore. DP's face was a picture when I gathered up her numerous dummies and put them away (he was worried about future sleepless nights). However, DD slept fine from that night on without dummies - I couldn't believe how easy it was to wean her off them.....and was also secretely delighted at my quick thinking .

I was really against dummies actually, but it was not really a very rational prejudice and I ended up giving one a try and to be honest, it has been very helpful having one. Anyway, given that I worried about it, I talked to the dentist about it early on and he said to me that dummies do change the shape of a baby's mouth and affect their bite, but that this is not a problem because it naturally corrects itself if they stop using it sufficiently early: in his opinion, ideally sometime before the age of 3. He suggested that the dummy fairy or father christmas should be invoked before then to end it. So that was reassuring. I am slowly slowly trying to reduce the dummy to bedtime only, but to be honest, it is still available in the car and buggy too, as it is a good calming technique in these situations. But during the day she doesn't have it unless she gets into a state (eg: sometimes coming out of the bath). So to sum it up: maybe try to structure use so that it doesn't interfere too much with speech development etc and otherwise don't necessarily feel you have to force the issue this early if it's a big problem.