Repairs can be expensive. When patients come in with lopsided faces
or lumpy lips, Dr. Mayoral injects fillers like Restylane. This works,
but a treatment lasts no more than six months and can cost $600. Patients
offer different explanations as to why they get beauty treatments from
amateurs. "Greed over getting a cheap deal made me do it, combined with
my anxiety to be pretty," admitted Wilma Sepulveda, 51, an administrator
at a real estate development company who is now one of Dr. Mayoral's
patients.