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.
structure of the hard palate consists of the horizontal portions of the palatine bones and the palatine processes of the maxillae. These paired midline bones completely separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity superiorly. The bony structure is covered with periosteum tightly adherent to the overlying mucosa. Minor salivary glands, towards the posterior aspect of the hard palate, drain directly through the overlying mucosa into the oral cavity.