What this site is for
This is patient education about hollowing at the temple, published by Chongqing West District Hospital, a tertiary general hospital in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing. It is a concern guide rather than a procedure page: it answers why this is happening, whether it needs treatment, and which of several paths applies. How the temple is actually treated, and the anatomy that makes it delicate, are explained where the treatment belongs rather than repeated here.
The distinction the site is built on
A temple can hollow because the deep fat compartment beneath it has deflated, because the bone of the temporal fossa has changed across adult life, because the face has lost fat everywhere, or because the fossa was always narrow and nothing has changed at all. Those four look alike in a mirror and are managed in different directions — one of them by doing nothing. Telling them apart is why the site puts the assessment before the ladder, and why it asks for old photographs.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not describe how to inject this region, name products or brands, quote prices or dosages, or promise a result. It does not present an injectable as equivalent to an operation, or an operation as equivalent to an injectable, because for a given cause one of them is the honest answer and the other is not. It does not treat a one-sided, rapid or post-injury change as an appearance problem at any point.
The limits of a website
Nothing here can tell you which cause is present on your own face. That needs someone to compare your face with old photographs, to watch the region move, and to establish where the named vessels and the nerve branch lie on you. Use this site to arrive at an assessment with better questions, and treat any answer you receive here as general information rather than as advice about you.