The Morphological Variation of the Soft Palate in Hospital Visiting Patients

  • Samarika Dahal Department of Oral Pathology and Forensic Dentistry, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Sanjay Prasad Gupta Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Ashutosh Kumar Singh Department of Oral Surgery, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Radha Baral Department of Oral Pathology and Forensic Dentistry, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Srikant N Department of Oral Surgery, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepa
  • Abhishek Giri Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v20i01.4044

Abstract

Background: The soft palate anatomy of individuals can have a range of morphologies. Cephalometric analysis is a low-cost approach to analyze the soft palate in patients with or without developmental abnormalities.
Methods: The lateral cephalogram of the patients visiting Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine for various dental treatment purposes was evaluated. The soft palate was delineated on the radiographs by sketching the soft palate's contour along its radiolucent outline using the curve lines and connectors of Microsoft PowerPoint. The soft palate was then categorized according to the study by You M et al.
Results: The different types of soft palate morphology observed in the study were rat tail (42.4%), leaf-like (40.8%), butt-like shape (8.9%), straight-line (4.7%), s-shaped (1.9%), and crooked (0.9%). The males had rat-tail (44.4%), leaf-like (41.1%), butt-like shape (8.4%), straight-line (3.9%), s-shaped (1.3%), and crooked (0.6%), whereas the females had rat-tail like (40.6%), leaf-like (40.6%), butt-like shape (9.5%), straight-line (5.6%), s-shaped (2.5%), and crooked (1.2%) types of soft palate.
Conclusions: The rat-tail form of the soft palate was the most prevalent, followed by the leaf-like in both sexes. The least common type was the crooked form. This study found no evidence of sexual dimorphism.
Keywords: Cephalogram; morphology; Nepalese population; soft palate.

Published
2022-06-02
How to Cite
DahalS., GuptaS. P., SinghA. K., BaralR., Srikant N, & GiriA. (2022). The Morphological Variation of the Soft Palate in Hospital Visiting Patients. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 20(01), 229-233. https://doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v20i01.4044
Issue
Vol. 20 No. 01 (2022): Issue 54 Jan-March, 2022
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Original Article

Copyright (c) 2022 Samarika Dahal, Sanjay Prasad Gupta, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Radha Baral, Srikant N, Abhishek Giri

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