Probably people are referring to a lateral browlift when they say temple lift, but I have heard a dermatologist refer to a "temple tuck" he does; not sure exactly what that is.A lateral browlift is a technique that elevates the temple and the lateral brow, but can be tailored to do other things as well.There are browlifts that go all the way across the head (coronal), along the hairline (pretrichial), are done through an endoscope (endoscopic) and numerous types of fixation, from nothing to Endotines to suture fixation.There are lesser and greater types of browlifts, nerve sparing types, types that risk bald spots, others where the chance is almost nil, hairline sparing, etc. As you can see, there are literally dozens of combinations.For more information, you might want to read the book chapter in the textbook Mathes which I wrote.
People use a variety of terms that can easily be confused. I think of a browlift as a very powerful operation which can lift the entire eyebrow area.A temple lift, in my vocabularly is directed more at the outer 1/3 of the eyebrow. It is generally a less involved operation and for most people it is really only the outer 1/3 of the eyebrow that they are trying to lift.
