Digital cephalometric analysis illustrating morphological variation of the soft palate

• Main Authors: Tanya Khaitan (Author), Ramaswamy Pachigolla (Author), Ginjupally Uday (Author), Praveen Kumar Balmuri (Author), Sai Kiran Chennoju (Author), Sreenivasulu Pattipati (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction and Objectives: The soft palate plays a vital role in velopharyngeal closure which is strongly dependent on a close coordination of the velum and the contiguous pharyngeal structures. It is reasonable to hypothesize that these structures may have different characteristics to match up to...