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.

Hi there-
It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what your surgeon may be describing, as it seems facial procedures each have taken on many names...
The best thing to do would be to contact your surgeon and ask exactly what they meant by these terms, and what differences you would experience with the two procedures...
In my Orlando Plastic Surgery Center, a brow lift would be a more significant procedure, with longer scars and recovery, but with more improvement that a temple lift, in which a small scar behind the hairline is used to elevate only the lateral (outer) area of the eyebrow.
I hope that helps you-

Usually when someone says temple lift they are referring to a lateral brow lift. The main difference is a typical brow lift will raise the forehead as a whole either with one long coronial incision or many small incisions across the forehead whereas a lateral brow lift is where a surgeon would only lift the lateral brow. The other difference is that with a typical brow lift; sometimes the muscle is cut/removed to stop the signs of aging.  A lateral brow lift would not affect the muscles except to tighten it along with the skin.

 

 

"Dr.D"

A temple lift usually refers to a lateral brow lift while a brow lift usually refers to a full coronal incision or an endo brow lift.

A browlift is also known as a forehead lift and is either one lone coronal incision or endoscopic incisions across the entire forehead that raises the entire forehead and brows.
A temple lift is simply a small incision in the temple area used to raise the lateral brow.

The temple is generally refered to the outer portion of the eyebrow and the lateral part of the forehead. A temporal lift usually lists the upper corner of the eyelid and lateral portion of the brow. A browlift is generic and can mean the lifting of any number of regions of the brow in differential degree,