Face off and on

Doctors are pioneering the first face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic with 7 women and 5 men who have suffered debilitating disfigurement. Dr. Maria Siemionow is spearheading this endeavor with the assistance of several doctors she enlisted to study the faces of the patients in preparation for the procedures.

Back in 1997, John Travolta and Nicholas Cage starred in John Woo's Face/Off about an FBI agent (Travolta) whose face is transplanted with that of a "maniacal terrorist" and his archnemesis (Cage) who claimed the life of his young son. A cool movie although Cage and Travolta are conspicuously different in body shape and size so I don't know how they thought they could get away with it. Maybe a brain transplant would've better explained that; that's a whole other entry and operation though.