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The morphological appearance of the palatine torus in the Cracovian skulls (XV–XVIII century)
A morphometrical study of the human palatine sutures
The paper presents metrical data on the palatine sutures of a dry skull collection comprising 29 male and 33 female specimens. The length and mutual proportions of the mid-palatal, interpalatine and transverse palatine sutures were considered. These properties led to a conclusion as to the extent to which the palatine process of the maxilla and palatine bones dominate in the formation of the hard palate. We discovered that the palatine process of the maxilla is prevalent and that it constitutes approximately 65% of the hard palate in both sexes. Moreover our findings indicated a significant correlation in the diameters of the palatine sutures that are arranged sagittally
The morphological appearance of the palatine torus in the Cracovian skulls (XV-XVIII century)
The paper presents a morphological analysis of the palatine torus of the Cracovian
skull dated from XV-XVIIIth century. The cranial collection analysed comprised
98 skulls with the hard palate preserved but only 27 male and 28 female
skulls showed the palatine torus. The length, breadth and height of the palatine
torus were measured, and a visual inspection of the position and form of the
torus was performed. Our findings suggest that most typical of the skulls analysed
is a medium-sized mound-shaped palatine torus in an antero-posterior position,
which means that the torus occupies the palatal processes of the maxilla
and the horizontal plates of the palatine bones along the mid-palatal suture.
Mean parameters of the palatine torus were established as: length - 25.7 mm
(male) and 28.3 mm (female), width - 10.8 mm (male) and 10.2 mm (female),
height 2.7 (male) and 3.2 mm (female). There are no significant differences
between mean values of the parameters of the palatine torus