Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said on Monday that a Ridgefield plastic surgeon whose office was cited for “unsanitary and unsafe” conditions voluntarily surrendered her license.

Dr. Teresita Mascardo voluntarily surrendered both her physician’s license and her outpatient surgery license for Woman to Woman Cosmetic Surgery Center after fearing that the state was about to revoke them.

Earlier this month, Mascardo had her license temporarily suspended by the state Department of Health after an inspector found sever rust in a machine that was being used to sterilize equipment, dust and blood on the floor, animal dropping on equipments, single-use suture sets with blood stains that were resealed for reuse and an unlicensed anesthesiologist working at the Danbury Road facility.

Mascardo, who also operates a New York City facility, pleaded guilty in 2007 to felony charges of submitting bogus tax returns from 1998 to 2001.

It is not clear if the same conditions exist in her Manhattan facility.