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.
A cleft palate that occurs without a cleft of the lip almost always affects the back of the palate, but the amount of the rest of the palate that is affected is very variable. It can affect only part of the soft palate, the whole soft palate or the whole soft palate and part of the hard palate. There is a type of cleft that can be difficult to see. A submucous cleft palate is when the muscles of the soft palate have a gap, but the lining of the palate doesnât have a gap, so it looks similar to a normal palate.