Cleft Lip facts
While investigating facts about Cleft Lip Causes and Cleft Lip Surgery, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Tutankhamun only had one set of grandparents. His father and mother were also sister and brother. He also had a cleft lip and a club foot.
how cleft lip is formed?
King Tut had a cleft lip, a clubfoot, suffered from malaria, and was a "proud product of the practice of royal sister–brother incest."
What cleft lip means?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what causes cleft lip. Here are 6 of the best facts about Cleft Lip Repair and Cleft Lip Ultrasound I managed to collect.
what's cleft lip?
-
A French bulldog named Lentil, who was born with a cleft lip and palate, is the "ambassadog" for kids with craniofacial anomalies.
-
One of the common Chinese superstitions is that pregnant women cannot hold scissors or knife in bedroom. Chinese people believe that holding a scissor during pregnancy would lead to giving birth to a baby with cleft lip.
-
Cheech Marin (of Cheech & Chong) was born with a Cleft Palate, a medical condition where your upper lip and the nasal cavity hasn't fully fused shut. He had it surgically repaired as a child.
-
Joaquin Phoenix's scar on his upper lip is not the result of corrective cleft lip or palate surgery. It is a birthmark he was born with which is medically known as a microform cleft, a mild form of a cleft lip.
