Patients with complete avulsion of the palate may require extensive surgical and prosthodontic rehabilitation. The prosthesis should replace not only missing teeth but also lost soft tissues and bone, including the hard palate, residual alveolar ridges, and in some situations, the soft palate. This clinical report describes the prosthetic rehabilitation, after appropriate surgical options had b...

Cleft palate is a congenital deformity with soft tissue and hard tissue defects. Normal cleft palate repairing surgery only repairs soft tissue defects, whereas bone defects in the hard palate still exist. Therefore, we conducted this study in beagles to observe the influence of bone grafting at primary surgery on craniofacial growth and occlusal relationships in individuals with complete cleft...

Aim: To determine the frequency of location vibrating line in relation to palatine fovea Class I, II and III soft palate types among patients at Islamic International Dental College, Islamabad. Study design: A cross-sectional observational study Place duration: Prosthodontic Dept Riphah University, from 2nd October 2021 till January 2022. Methodology: total 200 subjects were selected clinically...

Primary tuberculosis (TB) of the hard palate is very rare. A 74-year-old man was presented with 6-month history of dysphagia along with an irregular mass in the hard and soft palate. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed thickened and increased signal intensity within hard and soft palate. Tissue biopsy showed focal caseating granulomatous-like lesion and the histochemical staining using Zi...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine how anatomical conditions of the throat influence the degree and duration of posttonsillectomy transient hypernasality. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 82 tonsillectomies were performed. The participants were divided into groups: 1 – small tonsils, high soft palate position; 4 – large tonsils, low soft palate position, and 2 and 3 – intermediate tonsil d...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common disorder among North Americans and a major topic in health care nowadays. Though the exact cause of this disease is unclear, it is understood as partial or complete obstruction of airway due to collapsing of soft palate while sleeping. Our work is aimed at creating a reference model for soft palate; medical specialists can use a dynamic version of this ...