Voorbeelden van hard palate

• Delayed hard palate closure: the philosophy revisited.

• Moniliasis is sometimes associated with the use of dentures, in which case the changes may be confined to the hard palate.

• Most surgeons repair the lip and often the alveolar area and front edge of the hard palate between 3 and 6 months.

• In the position of the future hard palate, two outgrowths occur from the maxillary swellings, known as the palatine shelves.

• Closure of the cleft in the alveolus and hard palate involves mobilisation of tissues laterally and their displacement across the midline to cover the cleft.

• Note that a stop consonant made with the "body" of the tongue in contact with the hard palate is called a palatal stop.

• Recent research has shown that the port must be 2-2.5 (56 cm) or more in height before it will touch the hard palate.

• The palatine bone (hard palate) converts the groove into a canal, the pterygopalatine canal.