US: Baby born with two mouths due to rare condition undergoes successful surgery

A six-month-old baby girl recently underwent an operation to remove her second mouth, which was complete with lips, teeth and tongue. According to BMJ Case Reports, extra mass was first spotted in scans at week 28 of pregnancy and doctors believed that it was a possible cyst or tumour. However, when baby was born in Charleston, South Carolina, doctors found that 0.8-inch ‘mass’ was actually a second mouth. 

little girl is one of 35 people kwn to have suffered from Diprosopus or duplication of facial parts since 1900. According to case report, doctors said that second mouth had connection to main mouth. baby could brea, was and drink rmally, however, doctors informed that second mouth sometimes produced a clear liquid - possible saliva - and at times a raw surface would also appear around it. doctors soon decided to perform surgery so that extra organ could be removed. 

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Once little girl was admitted to hospital, operation involved drilling down on her mandible extra bone supporting teeth for or mouth. doctors wrote in case report that after surgery, little girl developed some mild fullness on right face at surgical incision for which a scan was performed, revealing a fluid collection. However, furr, y informed that fullness resolved over several months and she did t require furr treatment. 

In report, doctors wrote, “At a follow-up appointment at 2 weeks of , infant was healthy appearing, feeding well and gaining weight with oral incompetence”. 

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An extremely rare condition 

However, y also ted that little girl was unable to move right lower lip downwards, which could mean muscles in that area was longer working. y said, “ incisions were well healed and patient was feeding without difficulty but had persistence of inability to depress right lower lip, which could represent nesis of oral depressor muscles or ir innervation”. 

Diprosopus, which has reportedly also been recorded in chickens, sheep and or animals is an extremely rare condition. researchers believe that condition is a result of problems in proteins signalling facial structure during pregnancy, which can lead to a widening of facial features and duplication of ir structures. According to an international media report, back in 2004, a boy was born with a large cleft, two separate strils and an abrmally shaped head due to condition. 

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