Background: Schwannoma is a benign tumor which usually presents as a solitary slow-growing painless mass. Approximately 25–48% of all schwannomas occurs in the head and neck region and is found rarely in oral cavity, about 1% of head and neck cases. Tongue is the most common site, followed by buccal mucosa, palate, floor of the mouth, jaw, gingiva and lips. This tumor may prese...

Van der Woude syndrome or lip pits is a rare genetic autosomal dominant affection that represents the first cause of syndromic cleft and palate. Lower associated not with palate characteristic in this syndrome. The treatment surgical can be very challenging since aesthetic good results hard to achieve We report familial case as only manifestation.

Treatment objectives for the cleft palate patient--normal speech, normal maxillofacial growth, and normal hearing--are closely related. Controversy about the timing of cleft palate surgery is directed at the need for early palatoplasty for improved speech and hearing versus delayed hard palate repair for undisturbed facial growth. This controversy as to the value of early versus delayed closure...

Treatment objectives for the cleft palate patient—normal speech, normal maxillofacial growth, and normal hearing—are closely related. Controversy about the timing of cleft palate surgery is directed at the need for early palatoplasty for improved speech and hearing versus delayed hard palate repair for undisturbed facial growth. This controversy as to the value of early versus delayed closure c...

Electropalatography (EPG) is a well-known and established technique to measure the detailed time-varying contact pattern between the tongue and the hard palate. For EPG, the speaker wears an artificial palate in his mouth, which contains multiple electrodes (contact sensors) to register contact with the tongue. A related technique, albeit less known, is glossometry or optopalatography (OPG). Fo...

Palate is a complex structure both anatomically and functionally, comprising of bone, muscle and mucosa. Functionally both hard and soft palate, together serve as one unit to separate nasopharynx and oropharynx, such separation plays an important role in articulation of speech and deglutition. So, the main goal of palatal reconstruction is separation of oropharynx from the nasopharynx [1]. Alth...

there are significant structural differences between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity of birds and mammals. it is usual to refer to a common oropharyngeal cavity of birds because the soft palate, which forms such an obvious delineation between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity, is absent. six male adult ostriches were used to study the oropharyngeal cavity and its components including the beak, ha...

The purpose of this study was to determine hard palate morphology to provide guidelines for practitioners. This study measured the hard palate of 63 skulls of unsexed and unknown age from Indian subcontinent. The means and standard deviations of the following parameters were: greater palatine foramen maximum width, 2.3 ± 0.5 mm; lesser palatine foramen maximum width, 0.9 ± 0.4 mm; incisive fora...

cystadenoma is a rare benign salivary gland tumor that chiefly originates in the minor salivary glands as a cystic growth with papillary projections into the cystic lumen without the lymphoid element. it is further classified into two histopathological variants that have been recognized by world health organization as the papillary and the mucinous forms of cystadenoma. clinically, it is diffic...

SEM studies on the microvascular architecture of the hard palatine mucosa, especially the transverse palatine plicae, and the morphological relations between the microvasculature and layers of the hard palate mucosa of the rabbit, were carried out by the acryl plastic injection method. The findings were compared with those obtained previously in the cat and Japanese monkey. Morphological differ...