Table 5.
Number of participants from each country surveyed who are organ donor card carriers, are aware of the world's first face transplant, are willing to have plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons or if disfigured, and are willing to accept a face transplant or donate their face for transplantation
| Willing to Have Plastic Surgery | Attitudes to Face Transplantation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organ Donor Card Carriers,* % | For Cosmetic Reasons, % | If Disfigured, % | Awareness of World's First Transplant, % | Willing to Accept a Face, % | Willing to Donate a face, % | |
| United States | 35 (n = 179) | 22 (n = 112) | 94 (n = 477) | 59 (n = 299) | 73 (n = 367) | 47 (n = 236) |
| (n = 505) | ||||||
| United Kingdom | 45 (n = 117) | 21 (n = 72) | 95 (n = 330) | 58 (n = 201) | 76 (n = 264) | 49 (n = 172) |
| (n = 349) | ||||||
| France | 27 (n = 31) | 17 (n = 19) | 84 (n = 96) | 96 (n = 110) | 66 (n = 75) | 59 (n = 67) |
| (n = 114) | ||||||
| Australia | 52 (n = 123) | 26 (n = 62) | 98 (n = 232) | 75 (n = 177) | 68 (n = 161) | 42 (n = 99) |
| (n = 237) | ||||||
| Brazil | 53 (n = 132) | 41 (n = 101) | 98 (n = 244) | 84 (n = 208) | 77 (n = 192) | 54 (n = 134) |
| (n = 249) | ||||||
| Singapore | 100 (n = 250) | 28 (n = 71) | 82 (n = 206) | 47 (n = 118) | 61 (n = 153) | 41 (n = 103) |
| (n = 250) | ||||||
| Japan | 9 (n = 24) | 4 (n = 10) | 91 (n = 248) | 30 (n = 81) | 42 (n = 116) | 30 (n = 81) |
| (n = 274) | ||||||
| Taiwan | 9 (n = 20) | 2 (n = 4) | 92 (n = 205) | 36 (n = 81) | 72 (n = 161) | 42 (n = 93) |
| (n = 223) | ||||||
| Korea | 4 (n = 6) | 0 | 86 (n = 143) | 50 (n = 83) | 68 (n = 114) | 31 (n = 52) |
| (n = 167) | ||||||
| Iraq | <1 (n = 1) | 0 | 46 (n = 146) | 11 (n = 34) | 68 (n = 214) | 19 (n = 59) |
| (n = 315) | ||||||
*In Singapore, policy on organ donation under HOTA (Human Organ Transplant Act) is an “opt-out” system. The lead author noted that many Singaporeans surveyed did not realize that organ donation is an “opt out” system. Therefore, this result is an overestimate of the number of organ donor card carriers in Singapore.