Temple treatment at Core Aesthetics involves placement of prescription facial volume treatment in the temporal fossa to address volume loss at the sides of the upper face. At Core Aesthetics, clinical decisions follow a consultation-first approach and conservative treatment philosophy.
The temples are often overlooked in discussions about facial volume restoration, but temporal hollowing is one of the earliest and most visually impactful signs of facial volume loss. When the temporal fat pad reduces in volume, the sides of the upper face appear skeletal or gaunt, the brow area looks less supported and the overall facial silhouette loses its natural fullness. Temple treatment addresses this with prescription hyaluronic acid based facial volume treatment, individually assessed by Corey Anderson, AHPRA registered nurse, at Core Aesthetics in Oakleigh.
What Temporal Hollowing Looks Like
Temporal hollowing presents as a visible concavity at the sides of the upper face, between the lateral brow and the hairline. In early presentations, it may appear as a subtle flattening. As volume loss progresses, the temporal bone becomes more visible, the brow appears less anchored and the overall upper face takes on a more angular or gaunt character.
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The effect on the overall facial appearance is often greater than clients anticipate before treatment. Restoring a modest amount of temporal volume can meaningfully change the perceived fullness and proportionality of the upper face and improve the framing around the eyes and brows.
The Assessment at Core Aesthetics
Temple treatment assessment at Core Aesthetics covers the degree and pattern of temporal hollowing, the skin quality and thickness in the temporal area, the relationship between the temporal volume and the cheek, brow and overall upper face, and whether temporal treatment alone addresses the presenting concern or whether it should be considered alongside broader upper face assessment.
The temporal region requires careful anatomical knowledge due to the location of the temporal artery and other structures. Corey Anderson assesses the individual anatomy directly before making any recommendation. Not every client presenting with temporal hollowing is an appropriate candidate for direct temple treatment, and the assessment determines suitability.
Read more about temple treatment at Core Aesthetics and about facial volume loss and how it affects the face over time.
During and After Temple treatment
Topical numbing cream is applied before temple treatment. The temporal region is generally well tolerated following adequate numbing. The product is placed carefully in the temporal fossa using precise technique. Treatment typically takes 15 to 20 minutes for the full treatment once numb.
Results from temple treatment are typically visible immediately given the excellent visibility of the temporal region and the lack of significant swelling in this area. Mild tenderness and minimal swelling at the injection site is normal for 24 to 48 hours. Normal activities can be resumed immediately following treatment.
Temple treatment is placed in a low movement area and typically lasts twelve to eighteen months or longer. The settled result is best assessed at two weeks following the appointment. Read about facial volume treatment aftercare at Core Aesthetics.
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General Information Only. This article is general in nature and does not replace a consultation with a qualified health practitioner. Treatment outcomes, suitability and risks vary by individual. Any medical or prescription treatment options can only be discussed and provided where clinically appropriate following an individual assessment.
Clinical References
- AHPRA: Guidelines for nonsurgical cosmetic procedures
- TGA: Regulation of aesthetic treatments in Australia
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.
Clinical accountability and consultation framework
The consultation framework in “Temple treatment: What to Expect” is the same one Corey Anderson, AHPRA registered nurse (NMW0001047575), uses with every new patient at Core Aesthetics. The September 2025 AHPRA cosmetic procedures guidelines require a separate consultation appointment before any aesthetic treatment for new clients. That requirement isn’t a paperwork formality, it changes what the consultation is for. It becomes the appointment where assessment, planning, and informed consent happen properly, separate from any treatment pressure. Results vary between individuals, but consultation quality is the single largest variable Core Aesthetics can control. The pages on this site try to describe what a consultation should actually feel like.
Specific to temple treatment what to expect: a Core Aesthetics consultation is a paid clinical appointment, not a sales conversation. The consultation fee covers the practitioner’s time and the medical assessment; it does not commit the patient to any treatment, and there is no pressure to book one on the day. Some consultations end with a recommendation to defer treatment, to start with a different intervention, or to do nothing at all, that is a normal outcome, not a failed consultation. The cheek volume treatment Melbourne page covers what happens on the day in more detail.
Patients reading this page who want to verify Corey Anderson’s AHPRA registration can do so directly on the AHPRA public register at ahpra.gov.au using registration number NMW0001047575. The Core Aesthetics clinic operates from 12A Atherton Road, Oakleigh VIC 3166, Tuesday to Saturday, by consultation appointment. All new patient treatment at Core Aesthetics follows a structured clinical consultation, consistent with the September 2025 AHPRA cosmetic procedures guidelines. Treatment may be scheduled for the same day as consultation or at a subsequent appointment, depending on clinical assessment and individual circumstances. Patients with questions about the content on this page can raise them at consultation; the practitioner is happy to walk through any clinical reasoning that the written content does not fully capture. Results vary between individuals, and the consultation is the appropriate place to discuss what those individual variations mean for a specific person’s treatment plan.
Is this for you?
Consider booking a consultation if
- You are 18 or older and in good general health
- You want to understand how facial volume treatment may address a specific anatomical concern, volume, structure, or proportion
- You are prepared to attend a standalone consultation before any treatment decision is made
- You understand that injectable treatment is a medical procedure with individual risks and outcomes
This may not be for you if
- You are pregnant, trying to conceive, or breastfeeding
- You have an active infection, cold sore outbreak, or unhealed skin in a potential treatment area
- You have a documented allergy to hyaluronic acid or to local anaesthetic (lidocaine)
- You are taking anticoagulant medication or have a bleeding disorder, without clearance from your treating doctor
- You have had recent facial surgery, trauma, or dental procedures in the treatment area
- You are under 18 years of age
Suitability is confirmed at consultation. This list is general guidance, not a substitute for clinical assessment.
Frequently asked questions
What does temple treatment address for clients from What To Expect?
Temple treatment addresses age related hollowing in the temple area that affects how the upper face reads. The clinical approach is the same for clients from What To Expect as for any other suburb, individual assessment determines what is appropriate for the client’s specific anatomy and goals. Results vary between individuals.
How long do temple treatment results typically last for What To Expect clients?
Temple treatment results typically settle for between twelve and eighteen months in most clients, regardless of suburb. Individual response, dose, and treatment area affect duration. Retreatment intervals are reviewed at follow up rather than scheduled in advance.
What recovery should What To Expect clients plan for after temple treatment?
After temple treatment, mild swelling for 24 to 72 hours; bruising is possible due to local vasculature. Most What To Expect clients return to normal activities the same day. Detailed aftercare specific to the treated area is provided at the appointment, and any concerns can be raised by phone or email afterward.
How do What To Expect clients reach the clinic for temple treatment appointments?
From What To Expect, Core Aesthetics at 12A Atherton Road, Oakleigh sits within the broader south east Melbourne catchment, most easily reached by car. Oakleigh railway station is within walking distance of the clinic. Open Tuesday to Saturday by appointment.
How long should What To Expect clients allow for a temple treatment appointment journey?
Travel time from What To Expect to Oakleigh varies based on origin point and traffic. The clinic is in the south east Melbourne catchment and is most easily reached by car for clients further out. Allow extra time during peak periods.
Does Core Aesthetics regularly see What To Expect clients for temple treatment?
Yes, What To Expect is within the south east Melbourne catchment Core Aesthetics serves. Every temple treatment consultation and treatment is conducted by Corey Anderson, AHPRA registered nurse. Results vary between individuals.
Who conducts consultations at Core Aesthetics?
All consultations at Core Aesthetics are conducted by Corey Anderson, an AHPRA registered nurse (NMW0001047575) operating under nurse prescribing scope of practice. The consultation is a paid clinical appointment that includes facial assessment, treatment planning, informed consent, and a written record of recommendations. The September 2025 AHPRA cosmetic procedures guidelines require a separate consultation before any aesthetic treatment for new patients; Core Aesthetics observes that requirement strictly.
Do I need to bring anything to the consultation?
A list of current medications and supplements is helpful, as is a record of any prior cosmetic treatments (practitioner, date, treatment type). Photographs of how the area looked at different points in the patient’s life can also be useful for understanding what has changed and what the patient is responding to. The clinic will take its own clinical photographs at the consultation as part of the assessment record.
Should I get facial volume treatment if I am not certain I need it?
Uncertainty about whether treatment is appropriate is a valid reason to book a consultation rather than treatment. A clinical assessment can clarify whether volume loss, structural descent or skin quality change is the primary driver of what you are noticing, and whether injectable volume treatment is the right approach. Treatment is never assumed at assessment.
Is it safe to have facial volume treatment while pregnant or breastfeeding?
Prescription injectable products are not recommended during pregnancy or breastfeeding. There is insufficient safety data on these products in pregnant or lactating individuals, and the precautionary standard is to defer treatment until after this period. If you are pregnant, planning pregnancy, or breastfeeding, please discuss this at your consultation.
Why does facial volume treatment require an individual assessment rather than a standard dose?
Facial anatomy varies significantly between individuals in terms of fat pad position, bone structure, skin thickness and the degree of volume loss in each region. A standard dose applied without individual assessment risks over-correction, under-correction or placement that does not align with the underlying anatomy. Assessment-led dosing is the standard of care.