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Hard Palat

Mustafa Saber Hassan Arafa

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 Oral mucous membrane
It lines the oral cavity and is coated with serous and mucous
secretions Hard palate
Soft palate
Dorsal surface of
Ventral surface the tongue
of the tongue
Gingiva

Alveolar Check
mucosa mucosa
Vestibular
Mouth floor fornix
Vermillion border Labial mucosa
Labial skin
Classification of oral mucous membrane

Masticatory mucosa (Keratinized mucosa) -1

Gingiva )A( Hard palate )B(

Lining mucosa (Non-keratinized mucosa ) -2

Firmly attached )A( Loosely attached )B(
I- Soft I- Floor of II-Vestibule
II-lip III-check IV-ventral
palate mouth
S tongue III-alveolar
Specialized mucosa -3 mucosa
Dorsal surface of the tongue
Oral mucous membrane is formed of :

• 1-Epithelium

• 2-Connective tissue
• (lamina propria )

• 3-Basement membrane.
 •-Hard Palat
-It is keratinized masticatory mucosa.
 Macroanatomy of palate

Incisive papilla

Palatine gingiva
Rugae area Antro-lateral
area (fatty
Postro-lateral zone)
area Median
(glandular palatine
zone) raphe
Soft palate

Uvula Ah-line
• 1-Palatine gingiva.
• - It is the area adjacent directly to the teeth.
• is similar to the gingiva but mucogingival junction not present.
• No submucosa
• 2-Median palatine raphe.
• - Extends from the palatine papilla posteriorly.
• - Palatine papilla (incisive) is pear shaped and is formed of dense C.T. that contains the oral
part of the naso-palatine duct .
• - There is no submucosa.
• 3-The antrolateral area. (fatty zone)
• - Between the raphe and the gingiva anteriorly.
• - Its lamina propria is fixed to the periosteum by bands of fibrous C.T. dividi
ng the submucosa into compartments containing
• fat cells.
-The fatty zone acts as a cushion.
• 4-The postero-lateral area (glandular zone).
• - Present posterior to the fatty zone.
• - The submucosa contains pure mucous glands.
Histology of hard palate
Epithelial rete pegs
are short and
broad

Mucosa

Fatty zone

Glandular zone Submucosa

• Its histology is similar to the gingiva but:

• l-Epithelial rete pegs are short and broad.

• 2-The submucosa contains fat cells anteriorly and
mucous glands posteriorly.

• All the regions of the hard palate contain submucosa except

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• 1- Palatine gingiva .

• 2- Median palatine raphe