Dr. Csaba L. Magassy, MD, FACS

Expert Publications

• Restoration of hand function.
• Replacement of infected arterial prosthesis with inverted jejunal autografts.
• Long-term results of replacement of infected arterial prostheses with jejunal autographs.
• Management of infected arterial prostheses. A review of current methods and a new experimental technique.
• Experimental heart block in the dog. An improved method.

Media Releases

Get to know more about Plastic Surgeon Dr. Csaba L. Magassy, who serves patients in McLean, Virginia.

Taking great pride in approaching each patient’s needs with compassion, Dr. Magassy is one of the Washington area’s best-known and most highly regarded plastic surgeons. The Founder of Plastic Surgery Associates, PC, his well-deserved reputation is of an outstanding ability to combine the discipline of the surgical science with the practiced judgment and aesthetic perception so necessary to excel as a premier plastic surgeon.

Located in McLean Virginia, Plastic Surgery Associates, PC has been providing patients with top cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures in McLean; Silver Spring, Maryland; Reston, Virginia; Leesburg, Virginia; Potomac, Maryland; and throughout other Northern Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland communities.

Having helped thousands of people reach their cosmetic goals, Dr. Magassy has performed every cosmetic surgical procedure many times over, and brings to each patient the ability to discuss and fully explain all the options possible to reach the desired result. The choice of technique and how far to take a procedure is the patient’s. How reassuring it is to know that this doctor can offer solid advice based on more than twenty years of experience in bringing beauty to nature. Together, he and the patient can make the decision of what procedure and how much change should be used to achieve the balanced, pleasing effect that reflects nature’s most beautiful work.

Originally from Hungary, Dr. Magassy received his medical training in the United States at the Creighton University School of Medicine in 1962. He completed his residency in surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., and in plastic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

With excellence in cosmetic procedures for over 30 years, the doctor is board-certified in plastic surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS). The mission of the ABPS is to promote safe, ethical, efficacious plastic surgery to the public by maintaining high standards for the education, examination, certification, and continuous certification of plastic surgeons as specialists and subspecialists.

Attracting patients from all over the world, Dr. Magassy is an attending surgeon at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Fairfax Hospital, and holds privileges at Suburban Hospital and Sibley Hospital. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at George Washington University Medical Center and Georgetown University.

Recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), he is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Lipoplasty Society of North America, and the American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons.

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories – reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. A plastic surgeon’s primary responsibility is performing surgical and non-surgical procedures, and they use a variety of reparative and reconstructive techniques to get the job done. 

Among Dr. Magassy’s various honors include: selected as one of “America’s Top Plastic Surgeons” and “America’s Top Surgeons” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America; honored as 2006 Alumni of the Year by the University of California, San Francisco; honored as one of the Distinguished Professors of the University of California, San Francisco in 2011; recognized as one of the “Top Doctors” by Washingtonian Magazine; listed in Northern Virginia Magazine’s (April 2016 Issue) as one of the Top Plastic Surgeons in the DC Metro area; selected as one of the “Best Doctors in America” by Best Doctors, Inc.; and received the International College of Surgeons Award in 1968.

In addition to his superior credentials, he is a Champion Equestrian, a skilled pilot, and continues to seek out adventures (such as heli skiing), providing patients with a top-rated surgeon with a love of living life to the fullest.

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