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How can you tell the difference between a hard and soft palate?

How can you tell the difference between a hard and soft palate?

The hard palate in front is made of bone, while the soft palate in back is made of muscles. At the back of the soft palate is the uvula, which is a tiny “punching bag” of flesh. The hard palate holds the roots of the upper teeth, and the alveolar ridge is an essential part of clear articulation.

What is the function of the hard and soft palates?

The soft palate and hard palate form the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is at the back of the roof, and the hard palate is the bony part of the roof closer to the teeth. The main functions of the soft palate are to aid speech, swallowing, and breathing.

What is a normal hard palate?

The normal structures of the hard palate should be identified: Raphe – slightly elevated line extending from the incisive papilla to the soft palate (Figure 28) Rugae – corrugated ridges radiating laterally from the raphe (Figure 28)

What is a hard palate?

Listen to pronunciation. (… PAL-et) The front, bony part of the roof of the mouth.

What is meant by soft palate?

Listen to pronunciation. (… PAL-et) The back, muscular (not bony) part of the roof of the mouth.

What is the role of the hard palate?

The hard palate provides space for the tongue to move freely and supplies a rigid floor to the nasal cavity so that pressures within the mouth do not close off the nasal passage. In many lower vertebrates the hard palate bears teeth.

What does hard palate look like?

The hard palate, or roof, of the mouth is slightly rounded and usually smooth. However, some people may have a hard lump or protrusion extending out of this area.

Why is the hard palate hard?

Where is the soft palate located?

The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the hard palate.

What is the anatomy of the hard palate?

Anatomical terminology. The hard palate is a thin horizontal bony plate made up of two bones of the facial skeleton, located in the roof of the mouth. The bones are the palatine process of the maxilla and the horizontal plate of palatine bone.

What are the parts of the palate?

It is divided into two parts: the bony hard palate in the front, and the fleshy soft palate (called the velum) in the back of the mouth. The hard palate is part of the oral cavity and the soft palate is part of the oropharynx. The hard palate creates a barrier between the mouth and the nasal cavity.