Quiles could miss the rest of the season after confirming a double fractured cheekbone

Alberto Quiles will miss the rest of the regular season and could be sidelined for the rest of the season. As the club confirmed yesterday, he has a “double fracture of the maxillary sinus and orbital floor as a result of the kick he received in Nuevo Arcángel de Córdoba.” The striker is already in A Coruña, after departing from Córdoba with the rest of the expedition under the medical supervision of Dr. Lariño. Upon his arrival in Lavacolla, he was received by the general manager of the club, David Villasuso, who expressed his support.

Do not worry. With his face transformed into a painting, Quiles assured that he was feeling somewhat better than last Sunday, when he was the victim of a brutal kick in the face by Ekaitz Jiménez. This fact forced him to leave the field shocked and bloody.

Yesterday, already in the Herculean capital, a CT scan of the area was performed, which revealed a double fracture of the cheekbone. A common test in this type of accident, as explained by the doctor Jose Luis Lopez-Cedrunhead of the service for oral and maxillofacial surgery of the hospital complex A Coruña (CHUAC) and former president of the Spanish society of oral and maxillofacial surgery and head and neck surgery.

“When an attack of these characteristics occurs, there are two things that must be done: an ophthalmological examination and a scanner. When you receive a blow to that area of ​​the cheekbone, it is common to experience diplopia, which consists of double vision. So you have to control that issue. Then there is the problem of the bone itself, which determines through the scanner whether there is a fracture or not,” says the specialist.

“Aesthetically,” he continues, “it would be a collapsing cheekbone that would need to be repaired.” An incision would be made, whether at the bottom of the orbit, through the eyelid, or even internally. Then, another small incision at the tail of the eyebrow, and if the entire cheekbone has to be repaired, it would be done from the mouth, placing titanium plates. If the bottom of the orbit is affected (the upper part of the bone that ends in the hole we have under the eye, in the area of ​​the dark circles), it is necessary to put a mesh. As they had to be sewn up in this case, always speaking from a distance, I don’t know if they could use that opening for rehabilitation,” explains the surgeon.

Dr. Javier Pombosports medicine specialist and traumatologist at the Altra Salud clinic, supports what Dr. López-Cedrún commented and adds that, “being an elite athlete in an activity such as football, which is contact, everything is complicated after surgical intervention.

Recovery periods

Recovery time, as in any medical aspect, cannot be determined with certainty because, as Dr. Pombo states, “it depends on many factors: from the degree of injury to how the patient reacts.” However, you understand that There are minimum deadlines in professional sports. “Ten days, for example, would be enough for anyone to return to work normally, but we are talking, I repeat, about a sport in which there is contact and that he is a striker who goes into a conflict. I believe that once the break is confirmed, no one will take four to six weeks of inactivity. Because, after those first ten days, he could start doing some loose exercise, always alone, without the risk of contact, but then he would fully recover and get back in shape. For example, if you have to put a titanium plate, the fracture would be synthesized, but it would not heal with bone callus”, he emphasizes.

Now, with the diagnosis already confirmed, in the absence of an analysis by maxillofacial surgeon Álvaro García-Rozad, Quiles will undergo surgery once the inflammation is under control. From then, a minimum of three weeks, with which he will miss the four remaining games of the regular season and we will have to wait for the development to see if he reaches one of the play that, in case they are not group champions, Dépor will play in June.

A red card that the referee did not show

The clock was approaching the 65th minute of the game when Alberto Quiles received three quarters of the field. The man from Huelva pointed directly to the home gate. Then he found Ekaitz Jiménez’s boot hitting him in the face. The athlete fell to the ground and started bleeding. Doctors jumped onto the field and quickly requested a substitution. There were 25 minutes of the game left and Dépor saw that they had to send their best player off the field, and the result of the action, which only the match referee understood, was a yellow card. A set that should have been a red card, but the referee didn’t show it. Not even after we saw the result of the action of the green and white soccer player.

An action that, with the rules in hand, does not raise suspicion: «Handling or clashes around the ball that endanger the physical integrity of the opponent or in which the player uses excessive force or brutality must be punished as ‘sudden and serious play. This is what article number 12, FIFA Laws of the Game 2022-2023 literally says. The same one that Díaz de Mera applied to Quique González in December 2018, when the then Deportivo forward took the Chilean’s shot inside the penalty area in that game against Málaga of unfortunate memory.