{"id":10023337,"date":"2024-03-19T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/?p=10023337"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:01:33","slug":"cleft-lip-and-palate-in-the-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/category-news\/cleft-lip-and-palate-in-the-roman-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleft lip and palate in the Roman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

People with cleft lip and palate <\/a>have always existed! Historical evidence about them is particularly fascinating. The limestone portrait of a person with a cleft lip shown here is part of a Roman tomb from the 2nd\/3rd century A.D. It is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier<\/a>. The artist has depicted the unilateral cleft lip with great precision and attention to detail. He must have seen a cleft patient in person. Unfortunately, we know nothing about how the person depicted here lived their everyday life without a cleft operation<\/a>. How did the people around them react, what did they think, how did they explain this phenomenon?<\/p>\n\n

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