Cleft lip? Mouth rot?

[noahrofsky7]

Weird thought here,
have recently got a captive bred male Jacksonii jacksonii, and it seems to have what looks like a small cleft lip.

Not worried about it, just curious to see if that’s an issue Chams can get. Haven’t seen any other topics on it here or google.
Probably just missing some scales

Also, is that mouth rot in the corner? Inside seems to be pink and normal when he gaped at me transporting him to the cage.
thanks!

 

[nightanole]

Looks normal. Mouth rot is puffy, with drainage or drool.

 

[kinyonga]

Can you post to or three more photos of it so it can be seen more clearly please?

 

[Lindasjackson]

I don’t see why a chameleon couldn’t have a cleft lip. Even animals are born with a cleft lip sometimes. As far as the swelling by the corner of his mouth, that could be an infection. There’s a name for that type of infection in that location but I can’t remember what it’s called.

 

[noahrofsky7]

Can you post to or three more photos of it so it can be seen more clearly please?

Hello,

here’s the best I can do

 

[kinyonga]

What I was trying to see was the "cleft" in the lip. The new photos don't show it at all. I should have asked to see the inside of the mouth too...but I'm not sure I could be sure even then because chameleons and some other lizards have a nature "cleft" in the palate normally anyway....
https://www.chameleons.info/l/chameleons-have-a-permanently-cleft-palate-a-myth-unleashed/

There's no issue IMHO with the corner of the mouth.

 

[Fchamel]

I definitely see something in the lip. even though I don't know what it is.