Palate Flashcards
How may pairs of pharyngeal arches are there in the embryo?
What arches form the mandibular and maxillary prominences?
- 6 pharyngeal arches
- The first arch forms the mandibular and maxillary prominences
What form of epithelium forms in the nasal cavity and the oral cavity?
- Nasal - pseudostratified ciliated columnar
- Oral - stratified squamous
What bones form the hard palate?
- Palatine
- Maxillary
- Incisive bones
Name the following bones
What is the normal level of extension of the soft palate?
Extends just caudal to last maxillary molar teeth in normal dogs
List the muscles of the soft palate and their function
- Palatinus - shortens the palate rostrocaudally
- Tensor veli palatini - Stretched the soft palate between the pterygoid bones
- Levator veli palatini - Elevates the caudal soft palate
What are the 2 functions of the soft palate during swallowing?
- Stimulation of sensory nerves in the palate are part of the mechanism that triggers swallowing
- Closure of intrapharyngeal opening suring swallowing and vomiting to prevent food entering the nasopharynx and subsequently being aspirated
What side do unilateral cleft lips most commony form?
Left
At what time in foetal development does an insult need to occur to result in a palatal defect?
between day 25-28 in dogs
List some basic principles of surgical correction of palate defects
- Teeth at the surgical site or those which could damage the repair are removed 6-8 weeks prior to definitive repair
- Laser, electrosurgical and radiosurgical devices not used for haemostasis
- Flap should be at least 1.5x as wide as the defect they are going to cover
- 2-layer closure
- Suture lines preferable not overlying a void
- Injured tissue left to fully declare itself prior to repair
What is the standard closure technique for a:
- Congenital hard palate defect
- Traumatic hard palate “split” as with highrise syndrome
- Soft palate midline cleft
- Congenital hard palate - Overlapping flap
- Traumatic highrise syndrome - Medially positioned flap
- Soft palate - medially positioned flap
Name this flap
Overlapping flap
Name this flap
Medially-positioned flap
List options for surgical correction of congenital hypoplasia of the soft palate
- Bilateral tonsillectomy and extension
- Bilateral buccal mucosal flaps (one rotated, one rotated and overlapped)
- Bilateral pharyngeal advancement flaps and one overlapping hard palate flap
How do you repair an oronasal fistula?
Labial-based mucoperiosteal flap