Can Facelift Affect Skin Tone?

Skin tone depends on your genetics and lifestyle.  Good genes, no smoking, good nutrition, sun avoidance will all maximize your skin tone.  A SMAS plication/resection facelift will elevate and tighten the deep tissues of your face so the skin can be smooth over the top of  the improved contour and rejuvente your appearance.  This smoothing of the skin will make your skin tone appear better but the true quality has not changed.  Improved skin tone can be helped with a good skin care program, chemical peels, laser treatments or Retin - A cream. Done correctly, with proper tailoring of the skin, there should be no bunching of the skin where the incisions are.  This may occur if one tries to do a short scar lift on a patient needing more skin resection.

In general, skin tone and color will not be affected by a SMAS facelift technique. Bunching of the skin is also avoidable by proper tailoring and not trying to do too much with a short scar if it is not indicated. The skin itself will be less redundant, but fine wrinkles that remain may have to undergo a resurfacing procedure to restructure and tighten the skin itself (Laser or peel).
A naturally done SMAS facelift lifts the deep tissues that have fallen and the native skin redrapes over the new contour.
The 4 modalities I use to improve the face are lifting (facelift), skin resurfacing (peels), injectable volume (fat), injectable paralytics (Botox).