Electropalatography is a well established technique for recording information on the patterns of contact between the tongue and the hard palate during speech, leading to a stream of binary vectors representing contacts or non-contacts between the tongue and certain positions on the hard palate. A data-driven approach to mapping the speech signal onto electropalatographic information is presente...

Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are a group of highly diverse malignancies and have a strong tendency to affect organs and tissues that do not ordinarily contain lymphoid cells. Primary extra nodal lymphoma of the hard palate is rare. Here, we present a case of diffuse large B cell lymphoma in a 60-year-old male patient that manifested as slightly painful ulcerated growth on the edentulous right maxill...

The authors report a case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBL) of the oral cavity. The patient was a 73-year-old white man who first presented at the Division of Stomatology with a large nodular mass in the hard palate and a nodular lesion in the upper lip, which were diagnosed as DLBL. The patient was treated with eight cycles of CHOP chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine...

Myoepitheliomas are rare tumors that represent about 1% of the salivary gland tumors. Most of them are benign, and only 10% are malignant, and the latter are called malignant myoepitheliomas or myoepithelial carcinomas. The first case of a malignant myoepithelioma was described in 1975, since then there has been a greater incidence of these tumors reported in the parotid gland. Its involvement ...

BACKGROUND Myoepitheliomas are uncommon salivary gland neoplasms consisting entirely or predominantly of cells with myoepithelial phenotype. They commonly involve the parotid gland and the minor salivary glands of the palate. AIM A case of plasmacytoid myoepithelioma of the hard palate is described. CASE DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS A 55-year-old woman presented to her oral surgeon with a tumor ...

INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of intraoral soft tissue defects is important in restoring function and esthetic. In large defects, there will be demand for regional pedicle flaps or free flaps. Hard palate separates nasal and oral cavities. Due to the small surface area between flap and remaining palate after surgical resections, optimal blood supply of the flaps for hard palate reconstructions ar...

Collagen fibre organisation and fibril size were studied in the buccal gingival and hard palate mucosa of Macacus rhesus monkey. Light and electron microscopy analysis showed connective papillae exhibiting a similar inner structure in the different areas examined, but varying in distribution, shape and size. Moving from the deep to surface layers of the buccal gingival mucosa (free and attached...

Pyogenic granuloma (PG) is a kind of reactive inflammatory hyperplasia seen in the oral cavity. Gingiva is the most common site of involvement (75%), other extra-gingival sites involved are lips, tongue and buccal mucosa. It is predominantly seen in females in second decade of life with male to female predilection of 1:1.5, possibly because of the vascular effects of female hormones. Here we re...

The paper presents metrical data on the palatine sutures of a dry skull collection comprising 29 male and 33 female specimens. The length and mutual proportions of the mid-palatal, interpalatine and transverse palatine sutures were considered. These properties led to a conclusion as to the extent to which the palatine process of the maxilla and palatine bones dominate in the formation of the ha...