15: Oral Cavity: Hard palate & Retromolar trigone cancers

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the semilunar area between the upper alveolar ridge and the mucous membrane covering the palatine process of the maxillary palatine bones.

hard palate

<p>hard palate</p>
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hard palate epidemiology/ etiology

more common in patients with ill-fitting dentures or trauma

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hard palate cancer presentation

  1. difficulty in wearing dentures

  2. painful ulceration 

<ol><li><p>difficulty in wearing dentures</p></li><li><p>painful ulceration&nbsp;</p></li></ol><p></p>
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hard palate pathology 

adenocarcinomas (fyi: compared to most oral cancers which are SCC)

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the triangular area behind the last molar

retromolar trigone

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retromolar trigone carcinoma epidemiology

extremely rare cancer

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