What is the Difference Between a Brow Lift and Temple Lift?

Most brow-lifting procedures are surgeries that elevate the entire eyebrow. These can be performed with either a large external incision, or less invasively through small scalp incisions using endoscopes and instruments below your scalp and forehead.
I currently favor a temple-lift that leaves the middle of your eyebrow alone and elevates the tail of your eyebrows which are closest to your temples. Lifting the tail, and not the central eyebrow is rejuvenating, minimally invasive, and a more favorable procedure for forehead rejuvenation.
I hope this is helpful for you.

A brow lift generally involves lifting the entire brow, including the central portion, rather than just lifting the outer portion of the brow. In my practice, I often perform a temporal lift in conjunction with a cheek or neck lift in order to improve the upper cheek and temple area. Although this may also improve the lateral brow area, I do not consider this to be a brow lift on its own. A very similar procedure would be a temple lift or a temporal brow lift, which is designed to only lift the corners of the brow. This incision may be very similar to other brow lifting techniques and also similar to the temporal lift associated with the cheek/neck lift.Each procedure can be customized to the individual patient.All the best,

Facial aging can
have a significant impact upon the brow and forehead regions.  It’s not unusual to see a wide range of
anatomic variations in response to facial aging.  For these reasons, there are multiple surgical procedures
designed to elevate the brow.

Most browlift
procedures are designed to lift the entire brow in an upward direction.  This can be done with an open technique
which involves making an incision across the top of the head or an endoscopic
approach through small incisions.

A temple lift is
probably a lateral browlift.  This
procedure does not elevate the entire brow but instead only elevates the
lateral half of the brow.  The
technique involves making bilateral temperal incisions and raising the lateral
brow in an upward direction.

Browlift
procedures are selected based on the patient’s specific anatomic
deformity.  Both of these
procedures have a role in the correction of brow descent.  If you’re considering a browlift
consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon is appropriate.  This surgeon should be able to help you
choose the browlift option that is best for you.

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.