Palate
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Used for
hard palate, soft palate, uvula
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- A submucous cleft palate is where, although the surface layers of the soft palate (mucous membrane) are complete, the underlying muscle is incomplete.
- A cleft palate is a split in the roof of the mouth.
- What problems does it cause? The most immediate problem caused by a cleft lip or palate is likely to be difficulty with feeding.
- So, the pathogenesis of secondary cleft palate is failure of this fusion to occur.
- However, a child with cleft palate will have difficulty creating oral pressure to make speech sounds other than nasal sounds (m, n and ing) until the palate is repaired.
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