Skin Care Knoxville -

If you want to see major improvements in
your skin, but don't have time for "fluff"....

If you notice changes in your skin pigmentation
due to sun exposure or hormones....

If you have acne, blackheads or hormonal breakouts....

If you want to treat yourself or a friend to
a relaxing skin treatment with noticeable results....

You will appreciate

The Personal Approach to Skin Care

Our Skin Care Clinic offers the latest skin care products and services that are medically approved to consistently deliver impressive results, making a dramatic difference in the look and feel of your skin. Because most of our products and services are available only through physicians, results like these cannot be duplicated in a spa or salon.

Yet your skin care experience will not be clinical. Soft lighting, relaxing music and luxurious bedding combine to pamper as never before. Your skin care service will be "a treat" as well as a treatment.

The Million Dollar Question: What Makes Products in our Medical Practice Better Than What You Can Buy in a Drug Store or even a Department Store?

This is something we get asked a lot. Particularly when there is so much money being spent on advertising confusing the issue. The fact is that there are two standards of ingredients and two standards of regulation between what you find in our skin care clinic and what you buy over the beauty counter. Whether a skin care product works and is safe depends largely on what grade of ingredients it contains- cosmetic or pharmaceutical.

What's the difference between cosmetic and pharmaceutical ingredients ?

The products and peels we carry in our office are all pharmaceutical grade skin care and as such are subject to FDA regulation (even our vitamins). The FDA requires that pharmaceutical grade products be 99.9% pure ingredients. Products must contain 0.1%, or less, of bacteria. Only 5% of the skin care industry is under the regulation established by the FDA and considered pharmaceutical grade skin care products.

The other 95% of skin care products marketed are "cosmetic grade", two grades down in quality from pharmaceutical grade. The FDA does not perform or review product safety testing on cosmetics so the big beauty companies are trusted to do this on their own. The FDA doesn't test how well a cosmetic product works. Because of this, it's possible that claims made by cosmetics companies regarding how safe or effective a product is are often unsubstantiated and/or untrue.

This explains the vast difference between what a cosmetic product "says" it will do and what it really does. No-one is validating these advertising claims. It's easy to confuse a brand name with a result. Because someone is familiar with an "Oil of Olay" or a "L'Oreal", they often assume it will work as promised. If you are like us, you have thrown away hundreds of dollars worth of products in disappointment. That gets very expensive. If you are on a budget, it is even more important to buy what works the first time.

Ingredients Are Active, Marketing Budgets Are Not

Before you come into our skin care store, you may not have heard of Results Rx, Young Pharmaceuticals or Société Clinical Skincare. That's because these companies spend their money on what's in the bottle rather than on advertising to the public. Their goal is to treat the skin like the organ it is, as opposed to providing ubiquitous skin care for the masses.

Because they are distributed under the care of physicians, the ingredients are able to be a lot more active and you see results much quicker. Since they don't sit on grocery store shelves for months, they don't contain preservatives, stabilizers and fillers. They don't have fragrances or dyes or sodium lauryl sulfate or parabens or any of the other fillers that reduce the cost of production.

Expertise to Guide You

The best results are achieved with the combination of great products and a Licensed professional who can steer you in the right direction. Some of our products are really, really active and are not appropriate for someone new to skin care or someone with sensitive skin. For skin care veterans, our Licensed Aesthetician Heather McNeal, can steer you towards some of our favorite new products (like the Saturday Night Brightener, a take-home "mini" peel that you use once a week).

Our Reveal Camera Documents Your Results

Our new Reveal camera lets you see sun damage and brown spots deep in the dermal layers of your skin before they are visible to the naked eye (and while you still have time to correct it.)

In addition to documenting brown spots, the Reveal camera shows areas of redness and vascular features to help develop highly targeted treatment recommendations just for you. You will be able to accurately measure the results of your skin care regimen like never before. Best of all, the Reveal photographs are included at no charge in your free skin care consultation.

Before and After Skin Care for Sun Damage: These two photographs are taken of Katie with our Reveal Camera showing the underlying sun damage in her skin. The first (taken on August 10) shows high degrees of damage from sun and tanning beds which weren't visible by looking at her skin with the naked eye. In the second shot, (November 30) you can see significant improvement in the damage to the skin which was achieved by skin care, a Deep Sea Peel and sun protection. Click on the Katie's images to see the larger detailed photos.

Before and After Reveal Camera Photos of Melanage Peel: Here is a 59 year old mother of three who loves to garden and spend time outdoors. Licensed Aesthetician did a Melanage Peel with the at-home skin care regimen. Here she is with pictures taken on the Reveal Camera before and exactly two months after her procedure.

Click Here to Learn More About the Melanage Skin Lightening System.

Before and After Reveal Camera Photos of Laser Genesis for Redness: This is a 39-year-old woman who was concerned about a constant redness she was noticing in her skin tone. She was even having trouble covering it with makeup. Our Licensed Aesthetician, Heather McNeal, performed a series of six Laser Genesis along with a spot treatment of Limelight IPL. Her complexion is much improved as you can see in the regular Reveal photos. The dramatic changes in her skin are evident when looking at the Reveal photos that show redness underneath. What an improvement!

Click Here to Learn More About Laser Genesis.

Call 865-450-9417 to schedule your appointment with Licensed Aesthetician Heather McNeal or e-mail her directly at HeatherM@dbreath.com.

Skin Care Services- Chemical Peels

Chemical peels are definitely experiencing a newfound popularity and with these new peels, it's easy to see why. Chemical peels are now the fourth most popular nonsurgical procedures in the country (after Botox, Fillers and Laser Hair Removal). We think it is because of the marked improvement in their formulations.

Our new generation of chemical peels from Results Rx, Société Clinical Skincare and Young Pharmaceuticals is a far cry from old-fashioned glycolic acid peels which could be harsh and irritating to the skin without very exciting results. In fact, most of the new peels contain no glycolic acid at all.

Rather than just treating the superficial layers of the skin like peels of the past, these new chemical peels penetrate to the dermis, rejuvenating the skin from the inside out. Chirally-corrected active ingredients actually help to remodel the skin for less down time and more visible results.

If you are needing a jump-start, chemical peels can be boosted and layered for powerful results never before possible. They can be blended and customized for every skin type, including Rosacea and Melasma. Some peels are best in a series and others are designed to stand alone.

Click Here for our Menu of Chemical Peels and Personalized Prescription Facials

Click Here to See our Menu of Vibraderm Procedures.

Skin Care Services- Waxing

Licensed Aesthetician Heather McNeal has developed quite a following for her artistic brow design and shaping. Really! We have patients who come into Knoxville from hours away just to get Heather to do their waxing. So if you are here for other skin care procedures, you'll definitely want to check out our waxing. 

Click Here to See a Menu of our Waxing Services.

Lasers vs. Chemical Peels vs. Vibraderm

These treatments focus on regenerating the skin and improving texture, fine lines and wrinkles, but the way each works is different. Laser resurfacing has a fixed and targeted area of penetration. It is enhanced by the number of passes performed. The penetration and results from a chemical peel is dependent both on the concentration of active ingredients and the amount of time they are in contact with the skin. Vibraderm is a physical exfoliation of the top layers of the skin, followed by a deep infusion of prescription-strength topicals.

Which is best for you depends on your skin care goals and your budget. We'll be happy to walk you through all of your choices during your free skin care consultation.

Eye Doctor: Our Absolute Favorite Eye Cream

We have never had a skin care product that inspires as much passion from our patients and staff as Results Rx Eye Doctor.

One of our most discriminating patients started using Results Rx Eye Doctor. She told us the very next day that she had "used every eye product out there including La Mer and she had never seen anything like the immediate results with Eye Doctor".  Another patient said her competitive twin sister literally stole her Eye Doctor because she was "looking too much younger".  We have lots of funny stories about Eye Doctor, but the day we ran out of it right before Christmas was not at all pretty. You would have thought it was the latest Nintendo game.
 
So what exactly is Eye Doctor? It is a liquid crystal eye serum that plumps damaged, thinning skin around the eyes. The ultimate combination of AGP Complex (retinol) and cococin growth factors stimulate collagen and elastin formation to reduce the appearance of fine lines. The addition of copper complex provides potent strengthening power for the delicate eye tissue.
 
Like other Results Rx products, with Eye Doctor less is more. The tiniest, smallest amount you can pump is what you use, and one bottle should last you at least six months.
Results Rx Eye Doctor $125
 
Did you know?  When you put a drop of Eye Doctor on your finger you can actually see it double in size, which is how it plumps the skin around the eyes. Ask us for a demonstration

Introducing Heather McNeal:

If you haven't met Heather yet, you are in for a real treat. She has a unique ability to make everyone around her smile.

With over eleven years experience in aesthetic care, Heather brings a wealth of knowledge to our office. She is an active member of the Society of Plastic Surgical Skin Care Specialists.

She moved to Knoxville recently from Nashville where she was one of a selected few aestheticians chosen to pamper the elite guests of the Opryland Hotel. Her soothing, relaxing touch combined with medical-grade products and procedures is a winning combination for our patients.

Warm, welcoming and fun, Heather has special strengths in working with aging and hyper-pigmented skin. She is legendary for her waxing and has quite a following for brow design and shaping, which provides an added convenience to our patients.

Heather gets many letters from her happy patients after their skin care procedures. Click here to see some of the actual letters she has received.

Call 865-450-9417 to schedule your appointment with Licensed Aesthetician Heather McNeal or e-mail her directly at HeatherM@dbreath.com.

Actual Patient Letters