The medical case of Antoine Dupont has occupied the debates since Sunday, with everyone becoming an expert in maxillo-zygomatic fracture. The voices to listen to in this area are obviously those of medical experts and one of them, Doctor Nicolas Sigaux, wanted to reassure everyone: no risks will be taken with Antoine Dupont’s health.
Antoine Dupont had facial surgery last Friday and should return to the group XV of France mid-week. The captain of Blues could return to the field during the quarter-finals. But the question of his health remains, how can he play rugby after such a fracture?
“The patient here is someone extraordinary”
Questioned by the Olympic Middaythe doctor Nicolas Sigaux returned to the maxillo-zygomatic fracture d’Antoine Dupont, going into detail: “ The reactions around the Dupont case are a little irrational. However, we are dealing with a very classic injury, in our specialty. The minimum basis for calcification is six weeks. But the patient here is someone extraordinary. From then on…We must trust the medical staff of the XV of France, who have been transparent with the general public since Thursday evening. This behavior is healthy. […] There are four levels of severity in these fractures: first, the crack does not require surgery and leads to physical recovery after three weeks; the second stage, a little more severe, presents an aesthetic risk, asymmetry of the cheekbones; the third stage gives pain when chewing; the fourth stage concerns damage to the cavity containing the orbit, leading to bleeding in the eye and requiring emergency surgery. »
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“The cerebral and ocular risk has been ruled out for a resumption of competition in three weeks”
« Knowing the quality of the Toulouse University Hospital team that took care of Antoine Dupont, theThe cerebral and ocular risk has been completely ruled out for a resumption of competition in three weeks, continues the doctor Sigaux. Let me explain: the cheekbone is presented in our specialty as the bumper of the skull. When this bone breaks, it is because it has protected the other surrounding structures. There is therefore no cerebral risk in playing it again. If we look at the image of Dupont on Thursday evening, he is never disconnected, absent. He did not lose consciousness on the ground. If the Toulouse University Hospital and the medical staff give him the choice of returning in mid-October, it is because they consider that the vital prognosis or his vision are not at stake. Perhaps aesthetics, perhaps be the opening of the mouth for a few weeks but in no case the physical integrity of the player. »
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