Question 217 · LDEK · Examination and prosthetic treatment planning

So-called Lund’s areas evaluate:

  1. A. degree of palatal vault.
  2. B. areas of atrophy of edentulous alveolar ridges.
  3. C. degree of resilience of the palatal mucous membrane.
  4. D. areas of movable and non-movable mucous membrane.
  5. E. alveolar part of the mandible body.
Hint

Lund mapped the palate into regions differing in submucosal structure; which clinical property of the mucosa does that structure determine?

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