In patients who did not undergo surgery, biopsies were obtained from nasal or palatine ulcers or the affected sinus.
The alternative method was simply to enlarge the greater palatine canal to accommodate a cord.
The palatine bears a single terminal tooth, set at right angle to the bone.
Moreover, it is larger than the palatine bone, and, in practice, was easier to measure with accuracy.
This bone bears a median ridge which passes anteriorly on the palatine and on ectopterygoid.
In the position of the future hard palate, two outgrowths occur from the maxillary swellings, known as the palatine shelves.
Where there was no working of either kind, we presume that suspension was accomplished through the unaltered greater palatine canals.
Defects in fusion of the mandibular swellings and palatine shelves would result in median cleft of the lower lip and jaw and cleft lip and palate respectively.
