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Palate
The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.
Dr. Scott Harwood reviewed this
47 year experience in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
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A 47-year old asked:
Could a smoker regain his palate?
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A 50-year old male asked:
Inflamated palate how do I treat it?.
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A 55-year old asked:
What can be done with a fallen palate?
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A female asked:
The best medicine for inflamed palate?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: palate?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can you tell me how I could tell if my palate is fused?
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A 36-year old asked:
How can eating be easier with upper and lower palate expanders?
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A 43-year old asked:
Where can I get a palate-less impression tray to reduce gagging?
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A 32-year old asked:
Is it possible to get top and bottom palate expanders at the same time?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Can palate expanders be used on adults? Would they be effective and safe?
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A 49-year old female asked:
When you touch your palate it's tickleish right, but mine is not any answers plz?
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A male asked:
I have several hole like things on my upper palate. Is there anything to worry. I have developed it from today morning.
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A female asked:
I've had a small tori on my palate for years. Occasionally it gets a little bigger and goes back down again so I don't notice. Why does it do this?
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A 49-year old female asked:
Hi related to my last question, about palate pain they can not give me a diagnosis to what it is, and I am stil suffering in pain don't know what to do ?
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A 36-year old asked:
What is a high palate?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Why my palate is itchy ?
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A 37-year old asked:
What is a vaulted palate?
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A 32-year old asked:
What does a high palate mean?
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A 48-year old asked:
Can the soft palate get inflamed?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Really small bumps on my small palate?
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A female asked:
Do palate expanders make the face wider?
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A 39-year old asked:
Could anybody have a convex hard palate?
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A 53-year old female asked:
How domyou identify herpes on the palate?
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A 45-year old asked:
Causes of high palate and midline defects?
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A 48-year old asked:
How to tell if I have a normal hard palate?
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A 25-year old female asked:
How can i expand my palate without surgery ?
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A 46-year old asked:
Is palate surgery common for middle aged people?
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A 32-year old asked:
I do not understand why my hard palate is so high?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I have an scrape in my hard palate that hurt a lot.
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A 32-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: High palate?
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