Hard palate

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Hard palate
Mouth (oral cavity)
Upper respiratory system, with hard palate labeled at right
Details
Artery	Greater palatine artery
Nerve	Greater palatine nerve, nasopalatine nerve
Identifiers
Latin	palatum durum
MeSH	D021362
TA98	A05.1.01.103
TA2	2779
FMA	55023
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The hard palate is a thin horizontal bony plate made up of two bones of the facial skeleton, located in the roof of the mouth. The bones are the palatine process of the maxilla and the horizontal plate of palatine bone. The hard palate spans the alveolar arch formed by the alveolar process that holds the upper teeth (when these are developed).