The soft palate is found in the back of the roof of the mouth behind the hard palate. It’s made up of muscles and tissues, but no bones. It ends in the uvula, a fleshy piece of tissue that hangs ...

People with a bifid uvula will have more trouble moving their soft palate during times of eating, drinking, and speaking. Food may not be digested properly, and speech can be distorted. This is ...

The soft palate sits at the back of the mouth, behind the hard palate, which holds the teeth and gums. The soft palate does not contain any bone but is a fleshy area that ends in the uvula.

A bifid uvula is an abnormal split or division in the uvula, or tissue that hangs down at the end of the soft palate in the roof of the mouth. A bifid uvula is usually identified at birth when a ...

That soft flap of tissue that looks like a droplet at the back of your mouth, or soft palate, is called your palatine uvula. It’s usually harmless and a good thing to have hanging around ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable separation of the muscular soft palate and uvula (the small piece of tissue ...

Your uvula is the fleshy tissue that hangs in the back of your throat. It's attached to the roof of your mouth (soft palate). You can see it if you look in the mirror and open your mouth wide ...

“The uvula is the punching bag located at the back of the soft palate, and helps to close off the upper throat from the lower throat during swallowing and speech,” says Craig Zalvan, M.D ...

“The uvula is the punching bag located at the back of the soft palate, and helps to close off the upper throat from the lower throat during swallowing and speech,” says Craig Zalvan, M.D ...

Vibration of the soft palate and uvula, in contrast, produces a guttural and loud snore which is characteristically throaty. In most snorers, more than one area is involved in the vibration.