Touching the uvula or the end of the soft palate evokes a strong gag reflex in most people.

A speech sound made with the middle part of the tongue (dorsum) touching the soft palate is known as a velar consonant.

[3] These properties are useful when quantifying the effects of corrective orthopedic devices such as the Hotz Plate on cleft lip.

[4] Despite the difficulty in finding common, comparable landmarks between normal soft palates and cleft palates, analytical methods have been devised to assess differences in degree of curvature of the alveolar crest, two-dimensional and three-dimensional surface area, and slope of the alveolar crest.

[7] 10 to 30 percent of palatal petechiae cases are estimated to be caused by suction, which can be habitual or secondary to fellatio.