Abstract

OLAECHEA RAMOS, Maria Alejandra; SOVERO GASPAR, Abell  and  GUTIERREZ-VENTURA, Fredy. Anatomic evaluation of Soft palate using magnetic resonance imaging: Review article. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.3, pp.201-212. ISSN 1019-4355.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.20453/reh.v28i3.3398.

Objectives: This article aims to review the main research about soft palate anatomy and magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the soft tissues of this structure. Background: Soft palate is an anatomical structure composed of muscles with important functions during phonation, swallowing and breathing. The magnetic resonance is an imaging technique, which does not use ionizing radiation, getting relevance the last few years, so nowadays it plays an important role in maxillofacial diagnosis, especially in soft tissues such as palate veil, a good reason because of dentist specialist must know all about functional magnetic resonance through images in fast sequences where the movements of the veil of the palate in swallowing and breathing can be evaluated, as well as being able to observe changes in the structures of the upper airway as it occurs in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Conclusions: The review shows the importance of MRI in the study of the soft palate anatomy; This should promote the use of this technique to analyze soft tissues, it is demonstrated in the different MR imaging studies that detail these tissues well in their different sequences and its main advantage is that it does not use ionizing radiation.

Keywords : Anatomy comparative; velum palatinum; proton magnetic; diagnostic.

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