Definitions

1. A cleft lip is an opening in the upper lip.
2. Palate - The hard and soft tissues forming the roof of the mouth. (Web site)
3. Cleft lip is the split of the upper lip, and cleft palate is the split of the roof of the mouth, and are the most common congenital facial differences. (Web site)

Soft Palate

1. The passage from the back of the mouth to the pharynx, bounded by the soft palate, the base of the tongue, and the palatine arches. (Web site)
2. In group D the hard palate was still open.
3. If only the soft palate is affected, it is an incomplete cleft palate.
4. Associated clefts of soft palate and uvula are often seen.
5. In this case, the soft palate cleft is small enough that it doesn't affect his ability to suck.

Innervation

1. There it will provide sensory innervation to the anterior portion of the hard palate.
2. Gross anatomy, innervation, blood supply of the soft palate and isthmus faucium.

Plate

1. The oropharynx lies inferior to the soft palate (Clemente plate 552; Grant p.
2. The hard palate is formed anteriorly by the palatine processes of the maxilla and horizontal processes of the palatine bone (Clemente plate 498; Grant p.
3. Plate N63 or TG7-6 shows the hard palate.

Affected Side

1. Difficulty Swallowing, due to inability to elevate the soft palate on the affected side. (Web site)
2. The uvula tends to deviate toward the unaffected (intact) side, due to droop of the soft palate on the affected side. (Web site)
3. It tenses the soft palate and is innervated by V3.
4. The levator palati arises from the apex of the petrous bone and inserts into the palatal aponeurosis on the upper soft palate.
5. Temperature and nociceptive sensory fibers innervate much of the oral region, including the palate, tongue, and pillars of fauces. (Web site)

Cleft Palate

1. Most patients with either overt or occult submucous cleft palate can produce normal speech.

Cleft Lip

1. This accessible book discusses conditions such as cleft lip, cleft palate, and Treacher Collins, Apert, and Crouzon syndromes, and more.
2. Here were the records of children with cleft lip and palate, one of the more common craniofacial anomalies, which occurs about once in every 700 births. (Web site)
3. An Irish voluntary group providing support and information for parents of children with cleft lip and palate and those directly affected.

Pharyngeal

1. Includes labels for hard palate, soft palate, pharyngeal muscles, and trachea. (Web site)
2. The soft palate is innervated by V2 and the lateral pharyngeal wall by X (which also provokes the gag reflex).

Children Born

1. CleftSupport.com - Support group for parents of children born with cleft lip and palate.
2. A non-profit corporation that treats children born with facial and craniofacial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Vagus Nerve

1. It passes inward upon the Constrictor pharyngis superior, sends ramifications to the soft palate and tonsil, and supplies a branch to the auditory tube. (Web site)
2. Its upper border is attached to the posterior margin of the hard palate, and its sides are blended with the pharynx. (Web site)
3. Again, orient yourself: identify the tongue, hard palate, hyoid bone and soft palate.
4. All muscles of the palate (except for Temsor Palati) are innervated by the vagus nerve. (Web site)
5. The hypoglossal nerve (XII), accessory nerve (XI), and vagus nerve (X). The glossopharyngeal nerve (IX). Levator veli, palatini muscle and soft palate.

Mouth

1. The purpose of the palate is to separate the mouth from the nose. (Web site)
2. The opening in the palate permits communication between the nasal passages and the mouth. (Web site)

Babies

1. Babies with cleft palate are especially susceptible to middle ear disease.
2. Out of 38 children 10 (26.3%) were breastfed. Nonetheless, these babies had a solely cleft lip.

Nasal Cavity

1. Palatine bones are L-shaped bones located behind the maxillae that form the floor of the nasal cavity and hard palate. (Web site)
2. The maxillae form part of the floors of the orbits, part of the lateral walls and floor of the nasal cavity and most of the hard palate. (Web site)
3. Two nasal bones form the bridge of the nose.ss Two palatine bones from the posterior side walls of the nasal cavity and posterior part of the hard palate.

Unilateral Cleft

1. The repair of the cleft lip usually occurs at three months of age.
2. Physical deformities may be present, such as extra fingers and toes, cleft lip or palate, and tongue abnormalities. (Web site)
3. I was born with a unilateral cleft lip (which means just being cleft under one nostril), and bilateral cleft palate (no palate at all). (Web site)
4. Call the ACPA and find the team closest to you. I am 25 weeks pregnant and learned my daughter has a unilateral cleft lip and possible palate. (Web site)

Palate Cleft

1. Facial Differences > Cleft Lip and Palate with a cleft lip and cleft palate . (Web site)
2. Surgery is needed to close the palate. Cleft palate can occur alone without cleft lip or in association with cleft lip. (Web site)

Folds

1. It arises from the soft palate, where it is divided into two fasciculi by the Levator veli palatini and Musculus uvulæ. (Web site)
2. Rugae - elevated folds or wrinkles of soft tissue in the front part of the palate.

Upper

1. Occasionally, cleft palate may also affect the growth of the jaw and the development of the teeth.
2. Most PRS babies have a cleft palate, that is caused by the tongue not properly descending during development.
3. A cleft is when the mouth does not fuse completely together, leaving a divide in the upper lip or palate or both.
4. Lateral cleft lip, cleft upper jaw, and clefts between the primary and secondary palates are associated with defects anterior to the incisive foramen. (Web site)

Hard Palate

1. A second and smaller fold, the salpingopalatine fold, stretches from the upper part of the torus to the palate. (Web site)
2. INFERIOR MEATUS: Recess between inferior conchae and palatine process (hard palate) of Maxilla.
3. Probably arose from the therocephalians, judging from the distinctive secondary palate and numerous other skull characters. (Web site)
4. Stensen's duct Stensen's foramina Incisive foramina of the hard palate, transmitting anterior branches of the descending palatine vessels.
5. The Pharyngopalatinus is described with the muscles of the palate (p. (Web site)

Robin

1. The cleft palate in an infant with Robin sequence is generally closed before the first birthday.
2. Resources include 24-hour information phone, fact sheets on cleft lip and palate and Pierre Robin, brochures, and medical referrals. (Web site)

Birth

1. Downs Syndrome, cardiovascular defects, cleft palate.
2. Cleft palate is the most common birth defect that occurs. (Web site)
3. Cleft lip and palate are among the most common birth defects.

Tongue

1. The maxillary process becomes the maxilla (or upper jaw), and palate while the mandibular process becomes the lower jaw.
2. From there it goes to Pterygopalatine Fossa and onto nose, palate, and lacrimal glands.
3. The pulse is changed by its transit through the vocal tract, as portions of it are scattered and reflected back by the palate, nose, tongue, teeth, and lips. (Web site)
4. They may also arise within the minor salivary glands on the palate, lower lip, floor of the mouth, tongue, and retromolar pad.
5. Usually seen on the upper palate behind the front teeth or under totop.gif (1202 bytes) the tongue inside the lower jaw. (Web site)

Isolated Cleft

1. VPD is common in patients with VCF syndrome due to the presence of a cleft palate and pharyngeal hypotonia.
2. Calvarial form was significantly different from normal in cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft palate but to a small degree.
3. Malformations consistent with holoprosencephaly sequence, syndactyly of toes 2 and 3, micrognathia, cleft palate, and moderate to severe MR are seen.
4. Some primary and permanent teeth may be missing, abnormally shaped, or out of position. Some children with isolated cleft palate also are missing teeth. (Web site)

Nasopharynx

1. The nasopharynx lies between the internal nares, or choanae, and the soft palate. (Web site)
2. Cut along the roof of the mouth and pull aside the soft palate; find the openings of the Eustachian tubes in the dorsal wall of the nasopharynx. (Web site)

Bilateral Cleft

1. Children with cleft lip generally have normal or near-normal speech.
2. The most immediate problem caused by a cleft lip or palate is likely to be difficulty with feeding.
3. I know of another baby that has a complete, very wide, bilateral cleft lip and palate.

Oropharynx

1. The palatine tonsils are THE "tonsils" and are located in the oropharynx inferior to the soft palate.
2. The soft palate lies posteriorly separating oropharynx from nasopharynx.

Palate Repair

1. A cleft palate is an opening in the roof of the mouth.
2. This condition may be caused by improper closure of the palate.
3. The secondary palate develops from the right and left palatal processes.
4. We expect normal speech after cleft palate repair.
5. However, if the palate is properly repaired, there should be no problem. (Web site)

Palatine

1. Failure of the palatine bones to fuse causes a cleft palate, making suckling very difficult for an infant.
2. The horizontal plates of the palatine bones form the posterior portion of the hard palate.
3. Grooves running from posterior to anterior along the inferior surface of the palate for passage of nerves and vessels from the greater palatine foramen.
4. Still no secondary palate, but the vomer bones of the palate developed a backward extension below the palatine bones. (Web site)

Cheek

1. Others lie around and in the palatine tonsil between its crypts, and large numbers are present in the soft palate, the lips, and cheeks. (Web site)
2. Raising the soft palate prevents food and liquid from getting in nose and middle ear.
3. Tumors rarely involve more than one gland and are detected as a growth in the parotid, submandibular area, on the palate, floor of mouth, cheeks, or lips.

Swallowing

1. It elevates the larynx during swallowing and depresses the soft palate during respiration.
2. The motor component of this facial nerve is involved in the operation of the soft palate, and has some importance in swallowing and speaking.

Oral

1. The PALATE separates the oral from the nasal cavities.
2. Oral cavity, soft palate, pharynx.
3. Oral cavity: histology of the lip, bucca, gingiva, palate and tongue.
4. Mouth and oral structures: Weakness and impaired movement of the orbicularis oris muscle, tongue and soft palate. (Web site)
5. The oral cavity lies anterior to the soft palate, the anterior tonsillar pillars, and the circumvallate papillae of the tongue ( 6). (Web site)

Membrane

1. Beneath the mucous membrane on the oral surface of the soft palate is a considerable amount of adenoid tissue. (Web site)
2. The mucosal membrane of the soft palate receives innervation via the lesser palatine nerves, entering into the mouth via the lesser palatine foramina.
3. It supplies the gums, the mucous membrane and glands of the hard palate, and communicates in front with the terminal filaments of the nasopalatine nerve. (Web site)

Cleft

1. PATIENT: The present Japanese male patient exhibited dentition with AI and bilateral cleft lip and palate. (Web site)
2. Rehabilitation of a patient with cleft lip and palate with an extremely edentulous atrophied posterior maxilla using zygomatic implants: case report. (Web site)

Palatal

1. Lingual surfaces can also be described as palatal when found on maxillary teeth beside the hard palate. (Web site)
2. Since the vomer bone directly connects the hard palate with the rostrum of the sphenoid bone, cranial lesions will be reflected as a flat palatal distortion. (Web site)

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