Re: question about ridge in middle of palate

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It really doesn't look like a torus. I just looked at my own palate, and this ridge on the baby definitelt follows the same line I see as a faint white line on my own palate, so I am pretty sure cathy genna is on the mark with it being a delayed palatal closure,with extra thickenedd cells...i wonder if that kind of delay would resut in a cleft if delayed just a few days further. I am writing a lit review actually, for a class, about palatal closure, and apparently it is not yet known exactly what happens to the medial epithelial cells to allow adhesion of each half of the palate for fusion! Lots of theories though..