Palate

Question 1

What is the surface anatomy of the hard palate

Answer 1

Keratinised stratified squamous epi

Question 2

What is the surface anatomy of the soft palate

Answer 2

Non-keratinised stratified squamous epi

Question 3

What is palatal rugae

Answer 3

Horizontal lines run Anteriorly mucosal ridges

Question 4

What is the incisive papilla

Answer 4

Bump over incisive foramen

Question 5

What is the palatine raphe

Answer 5

Bones join the middle mucosa two palatal sheets come to join

Question 6

What is underneath the stripped mucosa

Answer 6

Hundreds of minor salivary glands

Mucosa tightly attached to bone

Question 7

What is cleft palate

Answer 7

Failure of the lateral palatine processes meeting and fusing together

Question 8

What complications does cleft palate lead to

Answer 8

Speech
Dental health
Feeding
Hearing

Question 9

What is the innervation of the tongue

Answer 9

Greater and lesser palatine nerves
Form V2

Nasopalatune nerve

Question 10

Where does the nasopalatine pass throu and supply

Answer 10

Pass - incisive foramen

Supply - palatal gingivae of anterior teeth and mucosa of anterior palate

Question 11

What nerves supply where in the nose

Answer 11

V1 anterosup

V2 posteroinf

Question 12

What is the somatic sensory innervation of the palate

Answer 12

Incisive branch of nasopalatine anterior

Great palatine nerves

Lesser palatine nerves posterior

Question 13

What lymphatic drainage drains the anterior prospect of the palate

Answer 13

Submandibular node

Question 14

What is the est of the lymp antic drainage of the palate

Answer 14

Retropharyngeal nodes
Cervical lymph nodes
Jugulodigastric nose - just for tonsil

Question 15

Where is the palate tonsil

Answer 15

Between 2 arches

One of largest tonsils

Question 16

What arch heads done to the tongue

Answer 16

Palate glossal arch

Question 17

What is the more posterior arch

Answer 17

Palatioharyngeal arch

Question 18

What is the uvula

Answer 18

Dangle bit

Skeletal muscle of soft palate

Question 19

What does the levator veli palatini

Answer 19

Elevates palate

Starts lateral and goes medial

Question 20

What is the tensor veli palatini do

Answer 20

Tenses palate

Starts lateral and stays lateral tenses soft palate stretch palate rather than lift

Question 21

What is the palatoglosses

Answer 21

Muscle
Palate towar tongue
Try get palate and tongue closer together when it contracts

Question 22

What does the palatopjaryngeus do

Answer 22

Longitudinal muscle of pharynx

Try get palate and pharynx closer together

Question 23

What is the muscle that technically consists of two. Muscle at each side joining in the middle

Answer 23

Musculus uvulae

Question 24

What innervates the soft palate

Answer 24

Vagus and cranial accessory innervate all but tensor veli palatini which is supplied by V3

Question 25

What is the palatine aponeurosis

Answer 25

Tensor veli palatini
Attaches superiorly to sphenoid bone
Tendon turns medially around pterygoid hamulus and enters soft palate
The tendon flattens out in soft palate and joins with tendon of the opposite muscle to form palatine aponeurosis

Question 26

How do clinical test the innervation is correct

Answer 26

If nerves function normally - uvula lift midline
If unilateral uvula pulled away form functioning Side
Ask out to say aaaahhhhh

Question 27

What is the soft plates function as a trapdoor

Answer 27

Stops food entering nose during swallowing
Directs air into nose or mouth
Close off entrance into pro pharynx during gag reflex

Question 28

What are the osteological features of the palate

Answer 28

Incisive canal 
Palatine foraminae - greater and lesser 
Median palatine suture 
Palatine process of maxilla
Horizontal plates
Pyramidal processes 
Lateral and medial pterygoid plates 
Maxillary tuberosity