What is the Difference Between Lateral Tarsal Strip and Canthoplasty? Are They the Same Procedure?

Thank you for your question.  Canthoplasty is a more general name for a procedure where the lower eyelid is secured in order to improve eyelid position or to prevent lid malposition.  Tarsal strip is one variation of that procedure using some of the lid tissue to support anchoring.  Hope this helps. All the best.

These terms are not exactly interchangeable.

Every lateral tarsal strip procedure is a canthoplasty.

On the other hand, various canthplasty techniques are being used, the tarsal strip procedure being one of them.