HARD PALATE
- HARD PALATE
- boundaries
- anterior 2/3 formed
- palatine process of maxilla
- posterior 1/3 formed by
- horizontal plates of palatine bone
- anterolateral margins
- continuous with alveolar arches and gums
- posterior margin
- attachment to soft palate
- Superior surface
- floor of nose
- Inferior surface
- Roof of oral cavity
- arterial supply
- greater palatine branch of maxillary artery
- Venous drainage
- drain in to pterygoid plexus of veins
- Nerves
- Greater palatine and nasopalatine branches of pterygopalatine ganglion
- Lymphatics
- Lymphatics drain mostly to the upper deep cervical nodes
- partly to retropharyngeal nodes
Discussion