Anatom3DHard palate
Palatum durum · Tvrdé patro
Skeleton
Looks like
The bony front part of the roof of the mouth, covered by ridged lining.
What it does
Separates the mouth from the nose and gives the tongue a surface to push food against.
Keeping it well
A cleft palate from birth is repaired in infancy; a lump or sore on the palate not healing in three weeks needs examination.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Bad breath (halitosis)
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Cleft lip and palate
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lichen planus
- Mouth ulcers (aphthous stomatitis)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Sarcoma
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency