Best Baby Teethers in 2026: Silicone, Mitt, Fruit and Crinkle Teethers Ranked by Owners

RaZbaby built the Chompy for the baby who already loves a pacifier: the mouthpiece is dummy-shaped and covered in soft silicone bristles that massage the gums as the baby sucks and chews, and the ring handle gives two hands something to hold. It is made from 100 percent soft silicone with no BPA, PVC, phthalates or lead, and RaZbaby states compliance with both US Consumer Product Safety standards and the European EN 71 toy standard, which most budget teethers do not claim. It freezes well and sterilises in boiling water. Thousands of owner reviews rate it highly. The honest downsides are that the bristles hold onto milk and need a proper scrub, and the whole thing is bigger than a normal dummy, so a very young baby may not keep it in without help. From about four months on it tends to become the favourite.

The TYRY.HU set is the one for a baby who wants to really bite. Each tool-shaped teether carries four textures, raised dots, curved ridges, vertical massage strips and wavy bumps, arranged along a head that a baby can push to the back of the mouth using the handle, which is where emerging molars hurt. The silicone is food grade with no PVC, cadmium, lead or phthalates, and the maker rates it safe for the dishwasher, the microwave, the freezer and a steam steriliser, so cleaning is whatever is nearest. The compact size is a deliberate redesign of a larger original. More than a thousand owners give it an excellent rating. You get two pieces rather than four, they are a touch heavier than a plain ring, and the product is newer than the RaZbaby, but as a molar teether it is the best-textured thing on this page.

Baby Paper is a six-inch square of soft fabric with a crinkle layer inside, developed by a mother who needed something to keep her babies occupied at restaurants. As a teether it works differently from the silicone picks: there is no hard texture, just fabric that feels good against new gums and makes a paper-crinkle sound every time it is squished, which is why it suits newborns who cannot yet hold a ring. It is BPA free, CPSIA tested and machine washable, which no silicone teether here can claim, and it folds flat into any bag. Thousands of parents rate it highly, mostly for how reliably it calms a baby in a car seat. It will not give a determined eight-month-old the counter-pressure of silicone and it cannot be chilled, so think of it as the first teether and the travel teether rather than the only one.

The Munch Mitt solves the problem every other teether has: babies under six months drop things. Worn like a mitten with an adjustable strap, it puts a textured food-grade silicone cap exactly where the fist goes, so the baby chews whenever the hand reaches the mouth, which is constantly. This combo pack adds Munch Mini mitts for the newborn stage, which protect the face from scratches and flip to a soft fabric side, so the set grows from birth to about seven months. Both are machine washable and carry a crinkle layer and high-contrast patterns for tummy time. It is the most expensive pick here and has the lowest owner rating of the eight, a solid rather than stellar one across well over a thousand reviews; the critical ones are about the strap slipping on very small wrists and how quickly the fabric soaks through. For the hands-free stage, though, nothing else does this job.

Loulou Lollipop is a recognised baby-accessories brand, and its silicone teether shows what that buys: a single piece of 100 percent food-grade silicone that the maker says meets FDA standards and is free of BPA, PVC, phthalates, lead and cadmium, with raised textures on both sides and a lightweight shape a baby can guide to the right spot. It goes in the freezer for cold relief and on the top rack of the dishwasher afterwards, and because there are no seams or inserts there is nowhere for water to hide. Several hundred owners give it a strong rating and praise how well it holds up to months of chewing. You pay more for one teether than the budget sets charge for four, the texture is moderate rather than deep, and the recommended age starts at four months. For a gift, or for the baby who already has a basic set, it is the quality pick.

Innobaby designed the EZ Grip teethers around a specific complaint: most teethers are too short to reach the back gums where molars come through, and too hard for a baby to hold. Each of the three fruit heads sits on a long, firm handle that a baby can grip and steer, so the soft textured head reaches the back teeth as easily as the front. The grape, citrus and berry heads give three different textures. Several hundred owners rate it excellently, and the reviews that mention molars are the most enthusiastic on this page. It costs more per piece than any other pick, and because it reaches further the maker’s advice to supervise is worth taking seriously, since a determined baby can push it a long way back. For the molar stage, from about eight months onward, it is the teether that works when the rings stop helping.

Nuby’s NanaNubs pack pairs a banana-shaped massaging toothbrush with a carrot-shaped teether, both in 100 percent soft silicone. The banana is the clever part: its pliable bristles let a parent massage sore gums and brush the first teeth without a hard brush, which the maker positions as a parent-held tool rather than a free-chew teether. The carrot is the baby’s own teether, with several textures along its length for little hands to hold. Several hundred owners give the pair an excellent rating, and Nuby has been making feeding and teething gear for decades, which counts for something in a category full of unknown brands. The bristles do wear down under a heavy chewer, and the carrot on its own is simpler than the TYRY.HU tools, but as a first gum-care kit it is cheap and genuinely useful.