[Palatine torus. Clinical picture and etiopathology]

In this note the Author deals with the so-called "torus palatinus", namely a hyperostosis, which develops very slowly, set on the median line of the palate; it usually develops during the years of youth and doesn't normally require surgical treatment because, as soon as it settles, it will not grow any more. Its surgical removal is needed only in some rare cases, when it does not allow the placing of a prothesis or when the mucosa covering it undergoes ulcerous pathology.