Pacifier use or thumb-sucking can also create this condition by pushing the teeth outward, sometimes causing the roof of the mouth to change shape (upper palate).

AL200-1 is the fossilized upper palate and teeth of the species Australopithecus afarensis.

An ear, nose, and throat surgeon tightened Yu's upper palate and removed scar tissue left behind from a childhood tonsillectomy.

In that procedure, the surgeon cuts away some of the floppy upper palate to open the airway.

Less commonly, erythematous patches without white plaques can be seen on the anterior or posterior upper palate or diffusely on the tongue.

I tapped the upper palate.

Air popped in bursts from his clamped lips and a hot gummy froth rose against his upper palate.

Then he pulls out the Self Defender, places the muzzle back against his upper palate, and squeezes the trigger.

He has some superficial lacerations of the upper palate, and he requested Nurse Chapel's assistance for the first aid.

"No, there's also through the upper palate," Manny added, pointing a finger toward the roof of his mouth.