Procedure:

Cybernetic skulls are not manufactured, they are grown. A composite of ceramics and metal, a cyberskull is relatively lightweight and very strong. Custom made models can be grown from x-ray scans of the patient. Mass production models can also be made with generic measurements. Once the new skull has been made, usually in a number of pieces, the patient is sedated and section be section, their face, and scalp are cut away from the existing bones of the face and skull. Piece by piece these bones are cut away and discarded. The new armored components are placed and grafted to the portions of the skull that remain behind. This is done through a series of surgeries, with downtime between them for healing. Once completed, the patient has a ceramo-metallic head that is nearly impervious to damage.

Exterior Cybernetic Skull: This less common variant discards any pretense of retaining an organic human face. The eyes, nose, and other sensory organs are replaced with cybernetic equivalents. The skull is smoothed, and reinforced with an armor carapace. The end result is a person with a robotic face. This is typically done for pragmatic reasons, such as already have a high degree of cybernetic augmentation, or for military/intelligence/clandestine purposes.

The pros of the exterior cybernetic skull are improved armor protection, enhanced cranial space for additional brainware like cyber decks, augmented senses, CogNet linkages, and so forth, and a bonus to intimidation and military/authority leadership tests. A person willing to have their face cut off and replaced with machinery is not someone to take lightly.

The cons of the cyber skull is a drastically reduction of social interaction skills. Cyber faces are not human, lack the same degree of expression. Finally, the dedication required for this surgery is very easily associated with zealotry and extreme behavior.

Face-Dancing

One of the advantages to the cybernetic skull is that the machine is by nature modular and adjustable. This gives a person with a cyberskull the ability to disconnect their face, and replace it with a new one. For internal cyberskulls this is a relatively simple procedure, something that can be done in an out patient cosmetology clinic. For the external cyberskull, this is a matter of a few minutes with the right hand tools and the desired replacement parts.

Body Doubles
There is a long history of famous and important people using doubles to take their place where they might be in danger, ranging from Hollywood celebrities to third world dictators. A VIP could use a group of face-dancer cyborgs to act as duplicates that rather than being victims are counter-strike forces. A less violent version of this is found in the sex entertainment industry where some high end face dancers alter their appearance to look like certain celebrities for exploitative purposes.

Face Punks

Face Punks are a faction who believe in depersonalization. They adopt a generic mask or face template to mark themselves as transhuman or posthuman. Face Punks are highly modified individuals, with extensive cybernetic and genetic modifications. Some ask the question, who is the person under the mask, what is the face under the gleaming synthetic shield, and the answer is that there is nothing under that artificial facade but blood, flesh, and some bone.
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The brain is pretty valuable. Let's remove it faaaaar away from the body by keeping it locked up in a high-security bank vault and simply control your body via tele-presence. Your original body has a special cybernetic skull that communicates with the bank's service network.