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"I can't wait to get back into the shadows": Antoine Dupont's discreet surgeon opens up about his career

10/9/2023, 11:24:55 AM

Highlights: "I can't wait to get back into the shadows": Antoine Dupont's discreet surgeon opens up about his career. Professor Frédéric Lauwers is a man of few words. He is an expert in maxillofacial surgery and a fervent defender of medical confidentiality. He has just given Dupont the green light to return to training, starting this Monday, in order to allow him to play in the quarter-final against South Africa on Sunday 15 October.


Propelled to the front of the stage, Frédéric Lauwers operated on Antoine Dupont and has just given him the green light to play in the final quarter

Professor Frédéric Lauwers is a man of few words. An expert in maxillofacial surgery and a fervent defender of medical confidentiality, the man who operated on Antoine Dupont prefers to focus on his patients rather than venting in the press. For the past eighteen days and the injury of the captain of Les Bleus against Namibia, he has been in the spotlight. And he is even more so after giving him the green light to return to training, starting this Monday, in order to allow him to play in the quarter-final against South Africa on Sunday 15 October.

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