Palate

Question 1

What are the 4 bones that the hard palate is composed of?

Answer 1

right and left maxilla, right and left palatine

Question 2

What kind of epithelium for the hard palate?

Answer 2

keratinised stratified squamous

Question 3

What kind of epithelium for the soft palate?

Answer 3

non-keratinised stratified squamous

Question 4

What is the palatine raphe?

Answer 4

fusion of palatal shelves

Question 5

What is cleft palate due to?

Answer 5

failure of lateral palatine processes to meet and fuse

Question 6

4 complication of cleft palate?

Answer 6

speech, dental health, feeding and hearing

Question 7

What foramen does the branch of the nasopalatine pass through?

Answer 7

incisive foramen

Question 8

What does the branch of the nasopalatine nerve supply?

Answer 8

palatal gingivae of anterior teeth and mucosa of anterior palate

Question 9

Where do retropharyngeal nodes?

Answer 9

retropharyngeal space

Question 10

What does the jugulodigastric node drain?

Answer 10

palatine tonsil

Question 11

Where do deep cervical nodes drain?

Answer 11

carotid sheath

Question 12

Where do submandibular nodes drain?

Answer 12

in the neck superficial to the submandibular gland

Question 13

What are the arches of the soft palate made of?

Answer 13

skeletal muscle covered in mucosa

Question 14

What are the 5 pairs of muscles of the soft palate?

Answer 14

levator veli palatini, tensor veli palatini, musculus uvulae, palatoglossus and palatopharngeus

Question 15

What are the skeletal muscles of the soft palate supplied by?

Answer 15

CNs X/XI except tensor veli palatini (CNV3)

Question 16

What muscle changes direction and forms a palatine aponeurosis?

Answer 16

tensor veli palatine

Question 17

What does the tensor veli palatine turn medially around?

Answer 17

pterygoid hamulus

Question 18

Clinical test fro vagus nerve?

Answer 18

ask pt to say ‘ahhh’

Question 19

Clinical test results for vagus nerve if functioning?

Answer 19

uvula lift straight up the midline

Question 20

Clinical test results for vagus nerve if not functioning properly?

Answer 20

uvula pulled away from the non-functioning side

Question 21

Function of soft palate as a ‘trapdoor’

Answer 21

stops food entering nose during swallowing, directs air and closes off entrance into oropharynx during gag reflex