Your heart, or misalignment of your spine, can cause chest pain. Many people that experience chest pain go to their family doctor or to the emergency room in fear that they are experiencing a heart attack.
Other Function. The hard and soft palates help people sing. When sound comes from the chest, the sound waves that have been generated by the vocal cords bounce off of the hard palate and out of the mouth. The hard palate essentially directs and resonates sound.
The palate is the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nasal cavity. It extends posteriorward into the pharynx (see fig. 53-4). The palate has an extravagant arterial supply (from branches of the maxillary artery) and many sensory nerves (branches of the pterygopalatine ganglion).