title: [Morphology of the soft palate in normal humans with digital cephalometry].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the morphology of the soft palate in normal humans with digital radiography and to provide the references for therapy of the cleft.
  
  
  METHODS
  106 normal people were involved. The morphology of the soft palate was observed with digital cephalometry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All static images of soft palate could be divided into six types: Shuttle-shaped, crescent-shaped, strip-shaped, S-shaped, hamulus-shaped and anomalous shaped. The dynamic image was knee-shaped.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The morphology of the soft palate is varied.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Oral Radiology, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Yu-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.forename: Hu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiao-Min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry; D002972:Cleft Palate; D006801:Humans; D010160:Palate, Soft