A jawline and lower-face balance for patients from Oakleigh reviews the concern, medical history, timing, expectations, risk factors and whether treatment is appropriate. The aim is to make a careful decision before any plan is discussed. A consultation may lead to treatment planning, a decision to wait, referral, or a recommendation not to proceed.
Chin dimpling, sometimes described as a pebbled or orange peel chin texture, is caused by overactivity of the mentalis muscle. It is one of the more predictably responsive wrinkle treatment areas, and a consultation at Core Aesthetics is focused on confirming that muscle activity is the primary driver and discussing what realistic improvement looks like for your individual chin.
All consultations at Core Aesthetics are conducted by Corey Anderson, AHPRA registered nurse, the sole treating practitioner at the clinic.
“There is no obligation to proceed. The consultation is where the honest conversation happens.”
Treating Practitioner
| Name | Corey Anderson |
| Profession | Registered Nurse |
| AHPRA | |
| Registered since | January 1996 |
What Causes Chin Dimpling
The mentalis is the muscle that controls the movement of the chin pad. It contracts during concentration, speaking and certain expressions. When the mentalis is overactive, its repeated contraction creates a pebbled, dimpled or orange peel texture on the surface of the chin. This becomes more noticeable with age as the overlying skin loses some of its elasticity, but it can be visible at any age in clients with sufficiently active mentalis muscle movement.
Wrinkle injectable treatment places a small amount of prescription product directly into the mentalis to temporarily reduce its activity. The surface texture smooths as a result. The treatment is conservative in dose and the mentalis is not significantly impaired in its normal function by appropriate treatment.
Chin Dimpling and the Lower Face Assessment
Chin dimpling treatment is sometimes discussed alongside chin treatment as part of a lower face consultation, as some clients are interested in both the surface texture and the structural projection of the chin. These are separate treatments addressing separate concerns, though they can be planned together. The lower face assessment at Core Aesthetics always considers the chin in the context of the jawline and overall lower face proportion. For a full overview of wrinkle treatment areas see our wrinkle treatments hub.
Located in Oakleigh, Serving Melbourne’s South East
Core Aesthetics is at 12A Atherton Road, Oakleigh VIC 3166. Accessible from Carnegie, Chadstone, Murrumbeena, Huntingdale, Bentleigh and Clayton. Open Tuesday to Saturday by appointment.
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Safety, Suitability and Clinical Assessment
All aesthetic treatment procedures carry risk. The suitability assessment at consultation identifies any contraindications or relative risk factors specific to your circumstances, including medical history, current medications, previous procedures, and anatomical features that may affect the risk profile for a given treatment area. This information is reviewed before any treatment is planned.
For certain conditions and medications, injectable treatments are not appropriate, or require modification of technique or timing. For others, the treating practitioner may recommend that you consult with your primary healthcare provider before proceeding. These are clinical judgements that can only be made with accurate, complete medical history information, which is why the consultation history taking process is thorough.
Complication recognition and initial management are part of the clinical competency required of practitioners performing injectable treatments under AHPRA’s September 2025 guidelines for nonsurgical cosmetic procedures. The practitioner at Core Aesthetics holds current training in this area and maintains the relevant management supplies on site. Understanding that risk exists and is actively managed is more useful than assuming risk does not exist.
Review Appointments and Ongoing Care
A review appointment at four to six weeks is a standard part of every treatment cycle at Core Aesthetics. The review is not contingent on whether you have concerns, it is a clinical standard that applies to every patient. At review, the practitioner assesses the result across all treated areas, compares the outcome to the pretreatment clinical photographs, identifies any asymmetry or variation in response between sides, and determines whether any adjustment is appropriate within the same treatment cycle.
The review is also where longitudinal data about how your specific anatomy responds to treatment is recorded. Over multiple treatment cycles, this accumulated data allows the practitioner to refine the dosing and approach to better match your individual response pattern, which is one of the most significant advantages of maintaining a consistent treating practitioner rather than moving between clinics.
If you have any concerns in the period between your treatment and your review appointment, contact the clinic directly. The practitioner who treated you has the clinical context to respond accurately to any post treatment question, which is preferable to relying on general online information that may not reflect your specific situation.
What the Assessment Covers
The assessment at the consultation appointment is a face wide evaluation, not a focused review of only the area you have identified as a concern. This full face approach is deliberate: anatomical features interact with each other, and addressing one area in isolation, without understanding the broader facial context, can produce results that look disproportionate even when the individual area was technically treated well.
The practitioner evaluates facial symmetry, bone structure, soft tissue distribution, skin quality, and the dynamic movement patterns associated with each treatment area. The history taking covers your current medications, any previous injectable or surgical procedures, relevant health conditions, and any prior reactions or complications. From this assessment, the practitioner develops a treatment plan that reflects your specific anatomy and circumstances.
Results vary between individuals. What the assessment finds in one patient may be different from what it finds in another patient with a similar presenting concern, which is why templated treatment protocols are not used here. All treatments at Core Aesthetics are consultation based and individually assessed.
The Long-Term Approach
Most patients who pursue aesthetic treatment are thinking about the long term, even when they are not sure how to articulate that. The question is not just “what can I have done today” but “how do I age well over the next decade”. Those are different questions, and they require different conversations.
At Core Aesthetics, the planning conversation is oriented towards the long term. What does gradual maintenance look like over several years? Which areas are the highest priority given current changes? When should treatment begin, and when is it appropriate to wait? What is the realistic trajectory if treatment is maintained consistently versus started later?
These questions are best answered in the context of an individual assessment, because the answers depend on anatomy, rate of change, starting point, and personal goals, all of which vary. The consultation is where that conversation happens. Results vary between individuals, and a long term plan reflects that variability rather than applying a standard approach.
How Facial volume treatment Is Used as a Structural Tool
Facial volume treatment is often described in terms of volume, adding more to make something look bigger. This framing misrepresents how volume treatment functions in skilled clinical practice. Volume treatment is a structural tool. It can restore lost support in areas where facial volume has diminished with age. It can define a contour that was never clearly pronounced. And in some cases it can shift the proportional relationships between facial regions in a way that changes how the face reads overall.
Volume, in the sense of visible fullness, is sometimes a goal. But the mechanism is anatomical. Volume treatment placed in the right tissue plane, at the right depth, with an understanding of the surrounding anatomy, produces a different result than volume treatment placed superficially to fill a surface irregularity. This is why technique, placement, and clinical knowledge matter far more than product selection.
At Core Aesthetics, treatment decisions are based on a full facial assessment. Corey evaluates the face as a whole before deciding whether volume treatment is appropriate, where it would be most effective, and what volume would be consistent with a proportionate outcome. This assessment may lead to a recommendation not to treat, and that outcome is equally valid.
Understanding Facial Volume Loss and Why It Matters
The face changes with age through a combination of processes: bone resorption, fat pad redistribution, muscle changes, ligament laxity, and skin quality decline. These processes do not happen uniformly or at the same rate in different people. Two people of the same age may present very differently because of genetics, lifestyle, sun exposure, and individual anatomical variation.
Volume loss is one of the most clinically significant contributors to an aged appearance. When the structural support provided by subcutaneous fat and bone diminishes, the overlying skin is no longer held in place by the same framework. Features that once appeared well defined become less distinct. The relationship between facial thirds can shift. Hollowing in specific areas, the cheeks, the temples, the under eye region, creates shadows and contours that are often interpreted as tiredness or loss of vitality.
Understanding the underlying anatomy is essential to treating it appropriately. Volume treatment placed to address a surface concern without accounting for the structural deficit beneath it will produce a less effective and less enduring result. The consultation process at Core Aesthetics focuses on identifying the anatomical contributors to the concerns you have raised, not just addressing the surface appearance.
The Assessment Process Before Any Volume treatment
At Core Aesthetics, the consultation for facial volume treatment is a structured clinical appointment, not a sales conversation. Corey assesses the face in three dimensions, at rest, during movement, and from multiple angles. The goal is to understand the structural landscape of your face before deciding where, how much, and whether volume treatment is the right approach.
Key aspects of the volume treatment assessment include evaluating facial symmetry and identifying natural asymmetries that should be preserved or addressed; assessing the depth and distribution of any volume deficit; reviewing skin quality to determine how volume treatment would integrate; and discussing your goals in the context of what is anatomically achievable. For some concerns, volume treatment alone is sufficient. For others, a combination of treatments, or a different approach entirely, may be more appropriate.
You will leave the consultation with a written treatment plan that documents the assessment findings, the proposed approach, and the expected outcomes. Treatment is scheduled at a separate appointment, allowing time to consider the plan, ask further questions, and make an informed decision without any time pressure.
Dissolution, Complications, and Revision
Hyaluronic acid volume treatments are reversible. If a complication arises, if the result is unsatisfactory, or if a patient wishes to return to their baseline, hyaluronidase enzyme can be injected to dissolve the volume treatment. This is an important safety feature that distinguishes hyaluronic acid products from permanent or semi permanent volume treatments, which cannot be dissolved.
Dissolution does not always produce an immediate return to the pretreatment state. The process requires time, and in some cases more than one dissolution treatment. Swelling from the dissolution procedure can temporarily alter appearance. Corey will explain this clearly at consultation so that patients understand what reversal involves before they commit to treatment.
At Core Aesthetics, only hyaluronic acid formulations are used for facial volume treatment, the reversibility of these products is a deliberate clinical choice. Emergency protocols for vascular occlusion, the most serious potential complication of volume treatment, are maintained at the clinic. Patients are briefed on the signs of this complication and given emergency contact instructions as part of every treatment appointment.
Managing Expectations and the Follow-Up Process
One of the most important conversations at a volume treatment consultation is about what the treatment can and cannot do. Volume treatment can address anatomical concerns related to volume, structure, and proportion. It cannot reverse all signs of ageing, change skin quality, alter bone structure, or produce a different face. Approaching treatment with an accurate understanding of its scope produces better outcomes than approaching it with the expectation of transformation.
After volume treatment, a follow up appointment at four to six weeks is standard practice at Core Aesthetics. This allows Corey to assess how the product has settled and integrated, to evaluate the result against the treatment plan, and to determine whether any refinement is appropriate. Minor asymmetries or areas where volume distribution could be adjusted are addressed at this review, not at the initial appointment where swelling and bruising can obscure the final result.
Results are always reviewed. Treatment at Core Aesthetics is not a transactional event, it is the beginning of a clinical relationship aimed at supporting your facial health over time.
Is this for you?
Consider booking a consultation if
- You want to understand jawline and lower-face balance before deciding whether treatment is appropriate
- You are 18 or older and want an individual clinical assessment
- You value a consultation-first approach with risk and suitability discussed before planning
- You are open to waiting or not proceeding if that is the safer recommendation
This may not be for you if
- You are seeking a not guaranteed outcome or a same-day decision without assessment
- You are under 18 years of age
- You are pregnant, trying to conceive or breastfeeding and are seeking elective aesthetic treatment
- You have an active infection, unhealed skin or an unresolved medical concern in the area to be assessed
Suitability is confirmed at consultation. This list is general guidance, not a substitute for clinical assessment.
Frequently asked questions
What happens at a Chin Dimpling Consultation appointment?
At a Chin Dimpling Consultation appointment, Corey Anderson RN conducts a full individual assessment covering your concern, medical history, previous treatment history, anatomy, suitability, timing and risk. The consultation for jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh is a standalone appointment — treatment does not occur on the same visit unless the assessment is straightforward and the client is ready to proceed. The outcome may be a treatment plan, a delayed plan or a recommendation not to proceed.
Is the Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation required before treatment?
Yes. Core Aesthetics requires an individual clinical consultation for jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh before any treatment is administered. This is a clinical and regulatory requirement, not a formality. The assessment at the Chin Dimpling Consultation appointment determines whether treatment is appropriate, what approach is suitable and what the realistic range of outcomes looks like for the individual anatomy and circumstances.
How long does a Chin Dimpling Consultation appointment take?
A Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation typically takes 30 to 45 minutes. If treatment proceeds at the same appointment, allow 45 to 60 minutes in total. Complex cases or patients with significant prior treatment history may require longer. Appointment length for your jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh consultation is confirmed when you book at coreaesthetics.com.au or by calling 0491 706 705.
What should I bring to a Chin Dimpling Consultation appointment?
For the Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation, bring a list of current medications, relevant medical history, any previous treatment records if you have them, and a list of allergies. If you have had previous jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh elsewhere, any information about the product or technique used is helpful. Arriving without heavy makeup makes the facial assessment easier, though it is not a requirement.
Can a Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation end without a treatment recommendation?
Yes. A Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation at Core Aesthetics can conclude with a recommendation to wait, a referral to another practitioner, or advice that jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh is not clinically appropriate for the individual at this time. Corey Anderson RN is equally prepared to recommend no treatment as to recommend a plan. The consultation is designed to produce the most clinically appropriate outcome, which is sometimes a decision not to proceed.
What risk discussion takes place at a Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation?
The Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation covers all relevant risks associated with jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh, tailored to the individual’s anatomy, medical history and the specific areas being considered. Risk discussion is a required component of informed consent and includes bruising, swelling, asymmetry, rare complications and the possibility that outcomes may not meet expectations. The aim is a fully informed decision before any treatment plan is finalised.
How does the Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation differ from a standard clinic appointment?
The Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation at Core Aesthetics is conducted solely by Corey Anderson RN (AHPRA NMW0001047575) and follows a thorough individual assessment format. There are no pre-set treatment packages for jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh. The assessment is unhurried, covers the whole face where relevant, and produces a recommendation that is specific to that person — not a template applied to all clients with the same stated concern.
Is Corey Anderson the practitioner at every Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation?
Yes. Core Aesthetics is a sole-practitioner clinic. Every Chin Dimpling Consultation consultation is conducted personally by Corey Anderson RN (AHPRA NMW0001047575), who has held continuous nursing registration since January 1996. There are no other practitioners at the clinic. Every patient who books a jawline and lower-face balance oakleigh consultation will be seen by Corey directly — this is a structural feature of the practice model, not a policy subject to change.