If this results from manipulation, that's not good. This makes it really difficult to know what clears up such an infection. The Nuk pacifier was designed to avoid this. However, because many babies don't even think about cutting teeth before age ten to eleven months, in those cases, it's a moot point. My personal preference is to omit the use of a pacifier.
Pacifiers rapidly become an addiction and are used by parents instead of seeing to a baby's needs.
A pacifier teaches a child that all of his frustrations and discomforts are answered by putting something into her mouth. A pacifier is occasionally useful to quiet an infant, say, in a church, or in other situations where a crying baby is unwelcome. It does no harm to offer water once or twice a day, as long as nothing, like juice, is added to entice her to drink it. I wonder about those bottles two or three times a day. I am afraid that, if these are bottles of formula she's getting, the resulting decrease in your nursing frequency may signal your breasts to cut back on milk production.