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nucumber t1_ir2iwl7 wrote

cleft palate

used to be fairly common, or at least not uncommon but now it's taken care of with surgery.

i'm an old fart (68) but back when I was a kid there was mean spirited snark about "hare lips" (the cleft palate lip gap looks like a rabbit's) but i wasn't sure what it was about bcuz i didn't know of anyone who had one.

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RNnoturwaitress t1_ir5v5ya wrote

That's a cleft lip, not a cleft palate. He may also have had a cleft palate, but we can't tell based on this picture.

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