Hyperkeratinized tissue is also associated with the heat from smoking or hot fluids on the hard palate in the form of nicotinic stomatitis.
This forms what is known as the roof of the mouth, or the hard palate.
Once emerging from the greater palatine foramen, it changes names to the greater palatine artery and begins to supply the hard palate.
The hard palate is horizontal for up to 1 cm behind the teeth, before suddenly opening upward in a feature known as the alveolar ridge.
Consonants with other primary articulations may be palatalized, that is, accompanied by the raising of the tongue surface towards the hard palate.
The maxillary arch receives primary support from the horizontal hard palate and the posterior alveolar ridge crest.
He would also elaborate that like many reptiles, many dinosaurs did not have a hard palate.
The palatine bone (hard palate) converts the groove into a canal, the pterygopalatine canal.