This Rare Condition Caused a Baby to Be Born With a Second Mouth - ScienceAlert

(Hamberis et al., BMJ Case Reports, 2020).

Occasionally, the skin around this second mouth would develop a "raw surface", doctors from the Medical University of South Carolina noted in their case report, and would drain a clear fluid that they suspected was saliva.

Diprosopus - the duplication of head and/or facial structures - is a very rare condition, with only around 35 cases on record in humans since 1900.

"Duplication of craniofacial structures typically occurs as part of a syndrome and is often associated with cleft lip and cleft palate, Klippel-Feil syndrome and Pierre Robin sequence," the doctors explained in their case report. .

"Our patient's craniofacial duplication is a rare case that presented as an isolated anomaly, with no associated syndromes or abnormalities.".

As you can see, there is still a lot unknown about this rare condition - and every single case we record is a medical wonder