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Craniopagus twins are those who are born with their heads joined or fused together. The ratio of such births is 1:10,000,000.

If successful seperation is considered, the first recorded successful operation to seperate Craniopagus twins was performed in 1953 on twins known as Grossman-Sugar. Only one of them survived.

If double survival is considered then, the first successful operation on twins joined at the head, was in 1952, where both twins survived. There is nothing more known about this.

In modern times there are several cases :
(1)Vilija and Vatalija Tamulevicius in 1987. Both survived.
(2)Carl and Clarence in 2004. Both survived.
(3)Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez from Guatemala. They've been conjoined at the top of their head, seperated in 2002. boyh survived.

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