We report the case of a 16-year-old female patient with taste impairment of the soft palate. After receiving a skull fracture due to a traffic accident, she experienced the taste of bitter chocolate. CT showed the fracture around the right temporal bone. Electrogustometry showed that the decreased sensation of taste was restricted to the right soft palate. Shirmer test showed that lacrimal secr...

The medical records of 41 racing Standardbreds, diagnosed as having dorsal displacement of the soft palate (DDSP), that underwent sternothyroideus myotomy and soft palate resection were reviewed. All horses had endoscopy of their upper respiratory tract, but not necessarily by Dr. Llewellyn.a The history had to confirm the diagnosis of DDSP. Surgery in each patient was performed by Dr. Llewelly...

91 Tuberculosis of the oral cavity is often a consequence of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis of the oral cavity may occasionally result from a hematogenous spread of mycobacteria [1]. However, in the described patient, tuberculosis was not detected at any other body site. Although the larynx is commonly involved in upper respiratory tract tuberculosis, the anterior pillar of the fau...

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 ...

Intraoral spindle cell lipomas (SCL) are very rare and comprise ranging between 1.4%-9.8% of all intraoral lipomas. To our knowledge, no case of a SCL located on the soft palate has been reported in the English-language literature. A 31-year-old female was admitted with a swelling in her soft palate. On examination, a 3 cm sessile, nontender swelling was observed on her soft palate. After surgi...

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a chronic insidious disease affecting mucosa and submucosa of oral cavity and soft palate. The present study aimed to evaluate the morphology of soft palate in normal individuals and OSMF patients using lateral cephalometry and to compare and correlate these variants of soft palate with different stages of OSMF. 100 subjects were included in the study, who were...

BACKGROUND Management and preservation of the soft palate is dependent on clinical stage and tumor histology. However, available literature is scarce regarding the palate preservation with the use of laser CO₂. OBJECTIVES We report the results obtained after management with laser surgery and soft palate preservation in three patients with salivary gland neoplasms. METHOD Three patients with...

Mucous retention cysts are the most common disorder of the minor salivary glands. An occlusion of the ducts of the minor salivary glands can lead to retention of mucus, and this change can in turn cause cyst formation. They are most commonly encountered in the lower labial mucosa but can affect any part of the oral mucosa and the involvement of the soft palate is rare. Salivary mucoceles may be...

Squamous cell carcinoma infrequently occurs at the soft palate. Although various methods can be used for reconstruction of soft palate defects that occur after resecting squamous cell carcinoma, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory results from the perspective of the functional restoration of the soft palate. A combination of bilateral palatal mucomuscular flap for the oral side and superiorl...