Sentences with phrase «hard palate»

The skulls without malocclusions (98 %) had broad hard palates with «U-shaped» arches, and proper alignment of teeth.

This can cause a high, narrow, arched hard palate, and sometimes encourage a tongue thrust swallow, if the baby uses the tongue as a «stop» to cut down the flow of milk from a teat with a larger hole.

When the baby is latched on shallowly, the nipple is being compressed between the tongue and the upper hard palate.

The palate wasn't just split soft tissue, but the entire hard palate, which is the bony roof of the mouth, from the front teeth all the way to the back of the mouth, was split.»

Those skulls also exhibited positive occlusions, minimal decay, broad hard palates, and «U-shaped» arches.

When you touch the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue you will be hitting the hard palate.

The hard palate allows the nipple to move more posterior towards the soft palate.

In breastfeeding, the hard palate's function is to assist with the positioning and stability of the nipple when drawn into the mouth.

The hard palate is divided into two sides.

If either side of the hard palate is uneven, suction can not be performed as efficiently or with the maximum power.

The flexible and soft human breast nipple tissue is beneficial in shaping the hard palate because it flattens and broadens in response to the infant's tongue action.

This peristaltic action of the infant's tongue flattening the nipple against the hard palate moves the milk toward the throat, where the baby swallows and gains nourishment (Figure 1).

Breastfeeding has the advantage of allowing the soft and hard palates to be moulded into a gentle curve, because the malleable breast tissue distributes pressure over the whole of the palatal region.

There is another compelling benefit to exclusive breastfeeding: positive effects on the development of an infant's oral cavity, including improved shaping of the hard palate resulting in proper alignment of teeth and fewer problems with malocclusions.

As the infant uses a peristaltic - like motion to «strip» milk from the mother's nipple / areolar area, the hard palate is gently shaped by the infant's tongue to a rounded U-shaped configuration.

I became interested in this subject when I noticed similarities in patterns of malocclusions, tooth defects, and the shape of the hard palates among thousands of patients seen over 27 years of private dental practice.

If your baby tries to tug on your breast, he will end up pinching it against his hard palate, making it uncomfortable for you.

When you see the gape, gently insert your finger, pad up, against the hard palate near the upper gumline.

Stiff tubing causes some babies to reject feedings, the firmness of the tube creates discomfort at the hard palate.

While moving your finger back, keep your finger pad in gentle contact with the hard palate.

That is what we want your nipple to do — point up to baby's hard palate, actually at a right angle to your breast.

Remember how we started our tongue's path to the back of your mouth with the tip of the tongue going up to your hard palate?

Instead, the nipple is being crushed against the hard palate or the gums.

With a deep latch, the nipple lands behind the hard palate and results in a comfortable feeding.

With a shallow latch, her nipple was compressed against her baby's hard palate, causing pain.

He does not have the nipple far enough back in his mouth and it is being squashed against his hard palate.

Normally, when a baby latches on to their parent to breastfeed, they open their mouth wide, stick their tongue out over their lower gum, and draw the nipple back into their mouth far enough so the nipple is about at the junction of the soft and hard palate.

If the baby isn» t latched on deep enough then the nipple becomes trapped between the hard palate and the baby» s tongue.

In these circumstances, your nipple gets pinched and rubbed against the baby's hard palate, and blisters, cracks and grazes will quickly appear.

The nipple should extend between the baby's soft and hard palate.

A good latch is a mouthful of breast that positions the nipple far back in the baby's mouth, behind the hard palate.

The collaborative team mapped the condition to mutations in the HYAL2 gene, which encodes an enzyme that breaks down hyaluronan, a carbohydrate polymer found widely in connective tissue, and in the hard palate.

Researchers located a novel gene mutation causing cleft lip and cleft palate defects, which slows the turnover of hyaluronan, an important component of the hard palate.

In many vertebrates, ranging from fish to early synapsids (ancestors of mammals), denticles are commonly found in dense concentrations on the bones of the hard palate (roof of the mouth).

This hard palate is joined to the more caudal portion or soft palate which extends to the epiglottis.

The roof of the mouth is called the hard palate and this serves as the division between the mouth and nasal cavities.

In addition, the doctor examines the entire oral cavity including the tonsils, soft and hard palate, tongue, cheeks, and vocal chords.

Although conjunctivitis may also be seen with this virus, the hallmark of infection with calicivirus is the development of ulcers in the mouth (gums, hard palate, tongue), or on the lips or nose in some cats.

Other common oral sites include the inside of the cheeks, hard palate, and tongue.

Fibrosarcomas arise from the gingiva or connective tissue of the hard palate.

The other is the Jacobson organ, also referred to as the vomeronasal organ, located in the hard palates of mouths.

The good news is that this defect did not involve the hard palate as it can in more severe cases.

When this occurs, the lower canine teeth may hit the hard palate (roof of the mouth) and cause pain for the dog.

We will often extract the lower baby canine teeth to prevent the sharp baby teeth from injuring the hard palate.

The kittens must be tube - fed until it is robust enough for surgery at 6 — 8 weeks old (soft palate) with repair of the hard palate at approximately 6 months old.

The adult teeth can erupt too medially and hit on the sensitive soft tissues of the hard palate, causing sores or fistulas.