When 35-year-old Kelley Young of Fresno, Calif,. looks at her wedding photos, all she can see is her plastic surgery disaster: Young's nose is bent to one side, and its tip is misshapen. "Those photos just look ugly, ugly all over," she says. Later, when Young went back to her doctor for a fix, he tried snapping her nose back into place-without anesthetic. A year laster she finally found a competent plastic surgeon to fix the problem.

Young is hardly alone. In fact, she's part of a new growth area in the field: fixing botched cosmetic procedures. According to a survey by the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, one in five nose jobs are corrections of a failed procedure. Stanley Frileck, an associate clinical professor of plastic surgery at UCLA, says that 35 percent of his work is fixing the mistakes of other surgeons. Botched rhinoplasty, face-lifts and eyebrow procedures are the most common. Not only are these repairs more complex than the initial surgery, but they can cost up to three time as much, Frileck says - and the result is never quit as good as a well-done procedure would have been in the first place.

10 Things Your Plastic Surgeon Won't Tell You - Smart Money May 2007