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Cleft Lip and Palate (Jan.1998) The levator veli palatini is the primary elevator of the palate. Clefts of the secondary palate are due to lack of fusion of the palatal shelves, and always occur posterior to the incisive foramen. In palatal clefts, the muscles of the soft palate are hypoplastic and insert in the posterior margin of the remaining hard palate rather than the midline raphe. www.utmb.edu /otoref/Grnds/Cleft-lip-palate-9801/Cleft-lip-palate-9801.htm   (2462 words)

Palate - MSN Encarta Palate, roof of the mouth, consisting of two portions, the hard palate in front and the soft palate behind. The soft palate is a movable fold of mucous membrane enclosing muscular fibres; its sides blend with the pharynx, but its lower border is free. It is suspended from the rear of the hard palate so as to form an incomplete wall or division between the mouth and the pharynx that, in swallowing, is raised to close the entrance to the nasal passages. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571901/Palate.html   (187 words)

Soft Palate Disorders in Dogs Soft palate disorders are usually congenital defects of the fleshy tissue at the back of the throat that separates the oral and nasal cavities. Cleft soft palate and elongated soft palate are predominantly seen in brachycephalic, short-faced breeds of dog such as English bulldogs, Boston terriers and pugs. In cases of traumatic injury to the soft palate, a history of running onto, or chasing a stick is most common, together with a sudden onset of oral tenderness, reluctance to eat or drink and bleeding from the mouth. www.petplace.com /dogs/soft-palate-disorders-in-dogs/page1.aspx   (870 words)

eMedicine - Malignant Tumors of the Palate : Article by Nader Sadeghi, MD, FRCSC The mucosa of the palate is a keratinizing pseudostratified squamous epithelium. The soft palate is a dynamic structure; optimal functioning requires muscular action to elevate and tense it during deglutition and relax it during nasal respiration. Transoral resection of a mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the palate. www.emedicine.com /ent/topic262.htm   (5803 words)

Cleft Lip and Palate Cleft Palate - The palate serves as the partition between the nasal and oral cavities. The soft palate or velum consists of the posterior one-third of the palate. Isolated cleft palate, without cleft lip, may include all of the hard palate posterior to the incisive foramen and the soft palate; it may involve only a small portion of the posterior part of the soft palate; or it may between these two extremes. www.d.umn.edu /~mmizuko/2230/cleft.htm   (3040 words)

Elongated Soft Palate The soft palate is a flap of mucousal tissue which closes off the animal's airway (nasopharynx) during swallowing to prevent foods and liquids from going into their lungs. In dogs with an elongated soft palate, the palate overlaps the epiglottis to a considerable degree, partially obstructing the animal's airway during breathing. An elongated soft palate is treated by surgically shortening the palate so that the edge opposes or slightly overlaps the epiglottis. www.frogdog.org /softpalate.htm   (310 words)

Soft Palate Disorders in Cats Kittens born with palate defects may have problems early on in their development, in the case of clefts. The diagnosis of a cleft soft palate i Young kittens with a diagnosis of cleft soft palate should be tube fed until at least three months of age before undergoing corrective surgery to close the defect. www.petplace.com /cats/soft-palate-disorders-in-cats/page1.aspx   (651 words)

Cleft lip and palate Babies born with cleft palates have openings in the palate, which is the roof of the mouth. The cleft palate may involve both the hard and soft palate and may occur on both sides of the center of the palate. The incidence of cleft lip and palate not associated with a syndrome is one in 700 newborns. www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/cleft_lip_and_palate.jsp   (1380 words)

Bulldog Elongated Soft Palate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Soft palate disorders are usually congenital defects of the fleshy tissue at the back of the throat that separates the oral and nasal cavities. Young dogs with elongated soft palates should be treated surgically between 4 and 24 months of age, by shortening the palate to a more normal length. Traumatic injuries to the palate should be repaired shortly after the injury, ensuring that any perforating material is not left behind in the throat or neck to cause future problems. www.bulldogchannel.com /bulldog_elongated_soft_palate.htm   (214 words)

Foundation for Faces of Children: Cleft Palate The palate is formed during weeks eight to 12 of pregnancy, when bone and muscle grow in from both sides of the upper jaw to divide the mouth from the nose. The palate is composed of two parts: a muscular part, known as the soft palate, and a bony part, known as the hard palate. Because the muscles and tissue of the soft palate are not properly formed in children with a cleft palate, this closure doesn’t take place and speech becomes impaired. www.facesofchildren.org /conditions/cleft_palate.html   (1393 words)

Haya-Ji Cleft palate is a birth defect in which the two halves of the mouth do not fuse together properly. The mildest presentation of cleft palate is sometimes found in older animals as oronasal fistula, or an opening between the mouth and nasal passages. Soft palate: Congenital shortening of the soft palate occurs in kittens and is very similar in its effects to cleft palate. www.hayaji.com /faqCleft.html   (728 words)

Introduction to Cleft Lip and Palate For centuries, perforations of the palate were considered to be secondary to syphilis, and cleft palate was not recognized as a congenital disorder until 1556, by Fanco. The primary palate is anterior to the incisive foramen, and the secondary palate is posterior to the foramen. In cleft palate, the levator attaches anteriorly to the hard palate and often is hypoplastic, and the tensor may end at the hamulus, or insert into the lateral velum. www.bcm.edu /oto/grand/6191.html   (1968 words)

Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate - The Merck Veterinary Manual Dorsal displacement of the soft palate (DDSP) is a performance-limiting condition of the upper respiratory tract, and is a relatively common cause of upper respiratory noise during exercise. Soft palate resection (staphylectomy) is frequently performed in horses with DDSP and also has a success rate of ~50%; however, the mechanism of improvement after surgery is unclear. Success has been attributed to reduction in the mass of soft palate obstructing the airway, easier replacement of the shorter soft palate to the subepiglottic position, and firming of the caudal edge of the soft palate to keep it ventral to the epiglottis. www.merckvetmanual.com /mvm/htm/bc/121315.htm   (399 words)

The World Craniofacial Foundation: Dedicated to helping children and familes who experience deformities of the head ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The soft palate is composed of several muscles and fibrous tissue (all of which is attached to the posterior edge of the bony palate). When the soft palate does not close completely or properly while making certain sounds, the patient is said to have velopharyngeal insufficiency or velopharyngeal incompetence. Nasal air "escapes" during speech because the soft tissue fails to close the gap between the soft palate and pharyngeal wall. www.worldcf.org /palate_clefts.cfm   (567 words)

Reconstruction of a Bilateral Hypoplastic Soft Palate in a Cat -- Headrick and McAnulty 40 (1): 86 -- Journal of the ... Hospital (VMTH) for surgical reconstruction of the soft palate. There was some contracture at the center of the new soft palate, but the overall extension of the palatal shelf was sufficient to restore normal function during swallowing and breathing. The palate is comprised of the primary palate (i.e., lip and www.jaaha.org /cgi/content/full/40/1/86   (2309 words)

UCSF Sleep Surgery Radiofrequency treatment of the soft palate is typically reserved for patients with simple snoring or upper airway resistance syndrome. The goal of palate radiofrequency is to reduce the loudness and frequency of disruptive snoring. It occurs because the soft palate is next to the jaw and the small Eustachian tube that connects the space behind the eardrum to the top of the throat. sleepsurgery.ucsf.edu /body.asp?bodyid=sleep_radiofrequencypalate   (697 words)

Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate in Horses However, during eating and swallowing, the soft palate moves upward as the epiglottis flips backward to cover the entry to the trachea. Once the palate displaces they are unable to breathe sufficiently, which leads to rapid slowing or stopping, at which time, they usually swallow and replace the palate into normal position, causing the gurgling noise to dissipate and the open-mouth breathing to stop. Because many nerves important for the function of the muscles of the soft palate, epiglottis and the wall of the throat course along the guttural pouch, it is believed that inflammation in or around the guttural pouch can cause palate dysfunction, which is a possible contributing factor to the development of DDSP. evrp.lsu.edu /healthtips/DDSP.htm   (1967 words)

Westie Health Concerns - Cleft Palate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The hard palate in the anterior (front) part of the mouth is formed by two bony plates, one on each side, that normally fuse at the midline during fetal life. The soft palate at the caudal portion (rear) of the mouth is basically muscle. The cleft palate of the type seen in Westies is formed when the two bony plates of the hard palate fail to fuse normally in the fetus. www.westieclubamerica.com /health/cleftpalate.html   (370 words)

Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Surgeons In a child with a cleft of the palate, the sling of muscles in the soft palate is incomplete. This X ray examination allows the speech pathologist and the plastic surgeon to view the movement of the soft palate and determine whether air is escaping behind the soft palate. In a submucous cleft palate the mucosal seam in the soft palate appears intact. w3.ouhsc.edu /surgery/cleftcraniofacial/speech.htm   (514 words)

Cleft Lip and Palate If the tissue in the developing mouth and the palate don't fuse together, a baby could be born with a condition called cleft palate. The palate in a person's mouth prevents food and liquid from going up the nose when swallowing, so a newborn baby with cleft palate may have to be fed breast milk or formula in a bottle with a special nipple. Today, most people born with cleft palate have surgery to close the hole in the roof of the mouth and reconnect the palate muscles between 6 and 18 months of age. kidshealth.org /teen/diseases_conditions/sight/cleft.html   (1610 words)

Soft Palate - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta The soft palate is a muscular door attached behind the hard palate in the roof of the mouth. During speech, the soft palate opens and closes a doorway (the nasopharynx). If the soft palate doesn’t close the doorway when it should, a number of speech problems can result. www.choa.org /default.aspx?id=3555   (74 words)

Palate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Palate is a common misspelling of the color-related term palette. The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and vertebrate animals. The name is Middle English and is probably derived from the Latin palatum or the Old French palat. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palate   (126 words)

Prenatal Diagnosis of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Using MRI -- Smith et al. 183 (1): 229 -- American Journal of ... palate or cleft secondary palate have chromosomal abnormalities of cleft lip and palate and cleft secondary palate in the prenatal population Soft palatal cleft was not recognized prenatally on either sonography or MRI. www.ajronline.org /cgi/content/full/183/1/229   (2711 words)

Palate Summary The front portion of the palate is constructed of bone (specifically two bones called the maxilla and the palatine) covered with a mucous membrane. When food is swallowed, the soft palate rises up and blocks off the entrance to the rear nasal passage. When functioning in conjunction with other parts of the mouth the palate produces certain sounds, particularly velar, palatal, palatalized, postalveolar, and alveolo-palatal consonants. www.bookrags.com /Palate   (526 words)

Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Cleft lip and cleft palate are very common and occur in about 1 or 2 of every 1,000 babies born in the United States each year. Sometimes a cleft may be related to what happened during a mother's pregnancy, like a medication she may have taken, a lack of certain vitamins, or exposure to cigarette smoke. During surgery on cleft palate, doctors close the hole between the roof of the mouth and the nose and reconnect the muscles in the soft palate. www.kidshealth.org /kid/health_problems/birth_defect/cleft_lip_palate.html   (1347 words)

Soft and Cleft Palate probems in dogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The first and foremost is the possibility of a cleft palate or oronasal fistula (opening between the mouth and nasal passages) for some other reason. Sharon- Soft palate surgery seems to be pretty safe when done by someone who is experienced in the procedure. Primary cleft palates are obvious as they cause the typical "harelip" appearance that people think of with cleft palate. www.vetinfo.com /dpalate.html   (1425 words)

Interventional procedure consultation document - radiofrequency ablation of the soft palate for snoring Radiofrequency ablation of the soft palate for snoring The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is examining radiofrequency ablation of the soft palate for snoring and will publish guidance on its safety and efficacy to the NHS in England, Wales and Scotland. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the soft palate aims to reduce the volume of the palatal tissue and to improve the texture of the remaining palate so that it becomes more dynamically stable. www.nice.org.uk /templates/core/page/page.aspx?mode=text&o=ip260consultation   (1105 words)

Quick Reference: Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Clefts that occur in the oral-facial region often involve the lip, the roof of the mouth (hard palate) or the soft tissue in the back of the mouth (soft palate). Cleft palate repair generally is timed to restore the partition between the nose and mouth as early as possible (often between 9 and 18 months). Families with a history of cleft lip/palate, isolated cleft palate, or any other condition of which clefting is a part, may wish to discuss the chances of recurrence with a genetic counselor. www.marchofdimes.com /professionals/14332_1210.asp   (1893 words)

Ask The Doctor Answers: Cleft of Soft Palate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The quicker the palatal structures are habilitated, the quicker proper speech sounds and oral air flow can be established. The soft palate is closed at various times, depending upon the plastic surgeon's preference. Each surgeon has a slightly different preference due to where and when they trained, etc. The usual time for closure of a soft palate cleft would be from 12 months to 18 months. www.cdlsusa.org /askthedoctor/answers/Cleft_of_Soft_Palate.htm   (494 words)

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