Hard And Soft Palate

At the back of the soft palate is the uvula which is a tiny punching bag of flesh. The remaining third is the soft palate which is soft muscular mobile and further back toward the throat.

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The hard palate lies more anteriorly in front while the soft palate lies posterior to it at the back.

Hard and soft palate. The soft palate and hard palate form the roof of the mouth. It forms both the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nasal cavity. 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 hard palate in front is made of bone while the soft palate in back is made of muscles. The hard and soft palate commonly called the roof of the mouth are important to articulation. Reflecting this the superior and inferior palatal surfaces have different mucosae.

The soft palate by contrast is a highly muscular structure that creates a series of movements during mastication. According to professor ronan o rahilly md and others of dartmouth medical school the first two thirds of this roof comprise the hard palate a firm fixed structure closer to the upper lip. The other part is the hard palate.

Since the hard palate is a bony structure that mainly functions to form a partition it is not anatomically able to move. Another big difference between the hard and the soft palate is their mobility. The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth.

The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone. The palate divides the nasal cavity and the oral cavity with the hard palate positioned anteriorly and the soft palate posteriorly. The objective of the hard palate is both feeding and speech.

Hard palate the hard palate is the fixed anterior two thirds of the palate that is formed by the palatal processes of the maxillae and horizontal plates of the palantine bones. Posteriorly the hard palate is connected to the soft palate which is a purely muscular structure and is bound by an thick tendinous aponeurosis of the tensor veli palatini muscles on both sides which is known as the aponeurotic plate. The hard and soft palate both form the roof of the mouth separating it from the nasal cavity and the oropharynx which is the cavity at the back of the mouth.

Before modern surgeries were developed infants with defective palates couldn t suckle and would often die.

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