Woman Who Allegedly Impersonated a Doctor and Performed Plastic Surgery Now Facing Assault, Kidnapping Charges

A Newton, Massachusetts, woman is facing multiple criminal charges after prosecutors say she posed as a physician and performed a cosmetic procedure that left a 22-year-old woman with permanent scarring.

Dingrui Wang, 34, allegedly performed a double-eyelid blepharoplasty on the woman in Allston in January 2020, according to a press release from Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office.

Authorities say Wang did not have a Massachusetts physician’s license but represented herself as a licensed doctor. Prosecutors allege she injected a local anesthetic and used non-FDA-approved dermal fillers in the victim’s eyelids during the procedure, resulting in lasting scarring.

After the first eyelid was treated, the victim attempted to leave the building, but Wang allegedly pushed her back onto the table and prevented her from leaving until the procedure was completed, the release states. The victim reported experiencing “extreme pain.”

Prosecutors also allege Wang claimed she held aesthetician, massage therapist, and hair salon licenses on a loan application to the American Lending Center and received a $37,379 loan while those licenses were suspended.

Wang is charged with four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury, one count of kidnapping, and two counts of larceny over $1,200 by false pretense.

She is also charged with unauthorized practice of medicine, improper use of the title of physician, and receiving payment for a surgical procedure based on that alleged misrepresentation, prosecutors said.

Wang was indicted by a Suffolk grand jury on Thursday, Jan. 29, and is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday, Feb. 5.

“Physicians are licensed for very good reasons, primary among them the assurance that patients are going to be treated by someone trained and certified to deliver safe, effective medical procedures. When misrepresentations are made the results can be devastating,” Hayden said.