Baby born with two mouths due to 'extremely rare' condition
Baby born with two mouths due to 'extremely rare' condition
Doctors say the girl had an extra lip, set of teeth and even a small tongue that moved at the same time as that in her main mouth.
Their initial range of possible diagnoses included a cyst, a bone disorder or teratoma, which is when a twin absorbs another during development in the womb.
But when the infant was born in Charleston, South Carolina, doctors found what they described as a "duplicated oral cavity", or second mouth.
This included another lip, set of six teeth and even a small tongue that moved at the same time as the tongue in her main mouth.
Although the condition was seemingly harmless, they performed an operation to remove the additional feature.
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