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What is lower eyelid retraction surgery?

Is lateral tarda strip a kind of lower eyelid retraction surgery? When you make canthoplasty or canthopexy with lower eyelid retraction surgery, what is this kind of surgery? How cam you raise up a lower eyelid?

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