The Palate Flashcards
What 3 bones and structure (1) make up the hard palate?
palatine, maxillary and incisive bones and the palatal mucoperiosteum.
What is the surface of the hard palate lined with?
Stratified squamous epithelium
The incisive papilla opens just rostral to the ? on the midline
first transverse ridge
The major palatine foramina are located medial to the ? either side of the hard palate.
maxillary fourth premolar teeth
Which artery courses rostral from the foramina to supply the rostral hard palate?
The major palatine
Several what are present, one of which runs between the canine and third incisor to anastomose with the infraorbital artery?
Rami
Sensory innervation to the oral surface of the hard palate is provided by the ?
major palatine branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve.
The soft palate is continuous with the hard palate, extending where in non-brachycephalic breeds
Just caudal to the last maxillary molar teeth
The soft palate consists of what lining?
oral stratified squamous epithelium
Blood supply of soft palate?
minor palatine arteries
Soft palate drainage?
palatine plexus
Where does the palatine plexus lie in relation to the palatine muscles?
Lateral
Sensory innvervation of soft palate?
minor palatine branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve.
The muscles of the soft palate include the (3)
palatinus and the levator and tensor veli palatini.
Where does the palatinus run?
The palatinus runs from the palatine process of the palatine bone to the caudal edge of the soft palate,
When the palatinus contracts; what happens to the soft palate?
Shortens
Where does the tensor veli palatini:
A) Arise from?
B) Insert?
A) bony process rostral to the tympanic bulla
B) palatine aponeurosis
The tensor veli palatini stretches the palatine muscle between what?
pterygoid bones.
The levator veli palatini
A) Origin?
B) Insert?
A) bony process rostral to the tympanic bulla
B) caudally on the soft palate.
Role of the levator veli palatini on the soft palate?
It elevates the caudal soft palate helping to protect the nasopharynx during swallowing and vomiting.
Which of these muscles stretches the palatine muscle between the pterygoid bones?
Palatinus
Levator veli palatini
Tensor veli palatini
Tensor veli palatini
The sensory innervation of both hard and soft palate comes from branches of which division of the trigeminal nerve?
Maxillary
Congenital palate defects occur due to?
Incomplete fusion of the maxillofacial structures during foetal development
Define primary palate
Lips and cheeks
Define secondary palate
Soft + hard palate
Are Clefts of the primary palate (lips and cheeks) mor common RHS or LHS?
LHS
Clinical signs commonly seen with primary palate?
Mild rhinitis
How to surgically repair primary palate?
Surgical repair of these defects requires reconstruction of the lip, philtrum, the floor of the nasal vestibule and the rostral hard palate. Flaps are usually harvested from the oral and nasal tissues to achieve this.
When are secondary palates more commonly noticed?
Weaning
Signs of a secondary palate?
failure to create negative pressure when suckling
drainage of milk form the nares during suckling
rhinitis
coughing
aspiration pneumonia
failure to thrive.