The Importance of the Naso-Palatine Nerve for the Body's Homeostasis

Antonio Ferrante 

Spec. in Odontostomatologia, Docente Master in Posturologia Università di Pisa, Università “Federico II “ Napoli

Correspondence: Antonio Ferrante, Spec. in Odontostomatologia, Docente Master in Posturologia Università di Pisa, Università “Federico II “ Napoli, Prima trav. Luigi Angrisani, 23 - 84014 Nocera Inferiore, Email [email protected]

Received: November 09, 2023                                                                                                                 Published: November 25, 2023

Citation: Antonio F. The Importance of the Naso-Palatine Nerve for the Body's Homeostas. AOJ Emerg and Int Med. 2023;1(1):56–58.

Copyright: ©2023 Ferrante. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially.

When thirty years ago I approached the re-education of swallowing, perhaps only the name of the nasopalatine nerve was known and that it was the oral terminal branch of the second branch of the trigeminal nerve. It was so little considered that many implantologists, having to insert implants in the premaxilla, eliminated it with impunity without knowing if this would cause harm to the patient. The interest in this nerve arose when, starting from the second-third month of swallowing re-education, apparently inexplicable improvements began to be appreciated, even before the results on lingual movement and muscle tone. Patients often asked me whether it was due to re-education that vision improved unexpectedly or that a scoliotic spine was so improved that it no longer required the expected treatment with a brace. I had no answers, but the frequency of the improvements found led me to focus my attention on the point that proved to be the means of improvement. It was the nasal-palatine foramen, the emergence of the nerve in the palate and already considered to be the "lingual spot", the point where the lingual apex must rest to initiate physiological swallowing. I bought anatomy books, magazines in the hope of having an "explanation", but without finding answers. In 2000 I happened to read in an Anatomy and Embryology magazine, the article written by two professors of Comparative Anatomy, who had found in all higher animals, the presence, at the emergence of the nasopalatine nerve, of an enormous quantity of the 5 major exteroreceptors present in the human body.1 It was the answer I was looking for, animals, the presence, at the emergence of the nasopalatine nerve, of an enormous quantity of the 5 major exteroreceptors present in the human body.1 It was the answer I was looking for, the neurological explanation of the improvements seen and not explained. In the meantime, a book of mine, written to warn dentists against carrying out treatments without considering oral muscle function due to the risk of creating problems outside the dental field, had become a textbook in the Masters in Posturology of various Italian universities and I was invited to participate as a teacher. This allowed me to begin a journey of research that perplexed or shocked those who read it. The function of the nasopalatine nerve has come to the fore forcefully both in the postural field and in general medicine. Help in accessing the neurological field came from the presentation at a conference of the case of a volleyball player who, after receiving a ball in the face, found herself with an apparently paralyzed leg, after a hospital stay, in which she had been hypothesized tibial hyperostosis, a neuropathy, a tumor in the spinal cord, a psychosis, he had finally seen the possibility of walking without crutches by sucking the finger (we have shown that you suck to activate the receptors) ( ) or by positioning the tongue on the palatine receptors