Baby born with two mouths due to 'extremely rare' condition in European Nation.

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.

Friday 29 May 2020 15:03, UK

The additional oral cavity features a lip, teeth and an extra tongue.

The additional oral cavity features a lip, teeth and an extra tongue.

A baby girl has been born with two mouths due to a condition so rare that it has only been seen in 35 recorded cases since 1900.

Doctors were initially baffled when the abnormality was picked up on a scan during the mother's third trimester.

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.

The baby during the procedure to remove the duplicated mouth.

The baby during the procedure to remove the duplicated mouth.

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 features...

The additional oral cavity features a lip, teeth and an extra tongue. Six months later, the baby was almost completely unaffected by the ordeal, only suffering some swelling and a minor nerve defect in her bottom lip.

No further treatment was needed, according to the study published in BMJ Case Reports.

"At six-month follow-up, the incisions were well healed and the patient was feeding without difficulty."

They explained the condition known as diprosopus, the duplication of facial features, was "extremely rare" - with only 35 cases reported in medical literature in the last 120 years.