At Gunn Dermatology, Dr. Holly Gunn and her dedicated staff offer full-body dermatological and cosmetic care, with any service or treatment a patient could possibly need, at two convenient locations in Mountain Brook.
They also treat their patients like family, and the patients think of Gunn Dermatology as their home away from home.
Gunn Dermatology offers a wide variety of services, including cosmetic and surgical procedures, head-to-toe skin exams and acne treatments. They provide basal cell and skin cancer removals through the safe, effective non-surgical techniques called IGSRT.
A full-service wellness center, Gunn Dermatology offers cryotherapy, infrared sauna sessions and spray tans.
Dr. Gunn opened her original location in Crestline Village in August 2020, which fulfilled her nearly lifelong dream of running her own practice. In November 2022, she opened the second location of Gunn Dermatology at Lane Parke in Mountain Brook Village.
At both facilities, Dr. Gunn and her staff provide what she calls great medical care in a luxurious environment.
“We treat you as a whole person with realistic, long-term goals to achieve your healthiest skin,” she says.
In addition, Dr. Gunn and her staff are always looking for new technologies that will help their patients.
“We always want to be up to date, and we want to educate ourselves ourselves on the best, most effective treatments out there,” Dr. Gunn says. ‘We’re constantly getting new devices and new procedures in the clinic.”
Gunn Dermatology “has everything,” she says. “There is no technology in aesthetic medicine that we can’t offer you.”
Those technologies include the Vivace Ultra device, which uses microneedling with radiofrequency to tighten, tone and contour any area of the body, Dr. Gunn says.
Dr. Gunn and her staff are also adept at using several new or recent technologies to give great treatments to the body.
“In the world of aesthetic medicine, we are moving to just treating the skin of the face but the skin of the body, and we’re getting better about noninvasive procedures for the skin of the body,” Dr. Gunn says.
Gunn Dermatology uses several technologies for the body, including the Vivace Ultra and the new EMSCULPT device.
“We offer lifting and tightening for various body areas,” she says. “We’ve seen great results with legs, arms, abs, and buttocks, as well as smoothing and contouring the skin.”
Gunn Dermatology is the first and only provider in Mountain
Brook to get Ellacor, a non-surgical, micro-coring technology that treats wrinkles and removes 7% of skin with each treatment.
“We’re seeing increasingly impressive results with Ellacor as we continue to perfect the technique,” says Dr. Gunn. “With resurfacing and Ellacor every three years, you may never need a facelift.”
Among the newest devices at Gunn Dermatology is the Tetra PRO CO2 ablative laser, which Dr. Gunn and her staff use for skin resurfacing.
In resurfacing, dermatologists use lasers to remove the outer layer of the patient’s skin. After the skin heals, it looks firmer, tighter, smoother and 5-10 years younger.
The new Tetra PRO laser allows Dr. Gunn and her staff to do the procedure even more effectively.
“It allows us to do the procedure faster and more safely with less pain and a shorter healing time for the patient,” Dr. Gunn says. “It also allows us to get even better results.”
Gunn Dermatology is also expert in administering Botox and other injectables to patients.
“We have the technology to do injectables safely and efficiently and to properly deal with any possible side effects,” Dr. Gunn says.
She also cautions patients to look out for providers who offer cheap prices for injectables but are not trained or equipped to do the procedures the right way and get the best results.
Dr. Gunn also seeks to help change some of the outmoded attitudes people express regarding cosmetic procedures.
“Society is changing regarding aesthetic medicine, but the concept of vanity still comes up,” she says. “But aesthetic dermatology is not about vanity. It’s not about looking better than the person next to you. It’s about looking good for yourself and maintaining your skin’s health. It’s about taking care of your face, which is your presentation to the world.”
Dr. Gunn says that most of us will spare no expense in maintaining the appearance of our houses or cars.
“People have no qualms immediately going to the body shop and fixing a ding or scratch on their car, but they don’t budget to take care of their face or their skin care,” she says.“If you are spending more on your car than your face, you should look at your priorities. You only get one face. You should see the value in it and maintain it.”
An accredited, board-certified dermatologist with almost 15 years of experience, Dr. Gunn attended medical school at The University of South Alabama and completed her dermatology training at Pennsylvania State University.
She worked in private practice for several years and formerly served as an assistant professor of dermatology and the director of the Dermatology Cosmetic and Laser Clinic at UAB.
Running her own practice has been very rewarding.
“It brings me so much joy when people come to me with a problem I know how to fix or improve,” Dr. Gunn says. “I’ve always been kind of a natural caregiver.
“I want to be a good example to my young daughters and to other girls that it is empowering to own your own business.,” she says. “I want to show them that when women are forced to have to take on responsibility, we have the ability to do it. We can take on expanded roles as females, and we can do it with finesse and gentleness and empathy.”
Women make great entrepreneurs and business owners, Dr. Gunn says.
“I think women bring a lot of caring into business,” she says. “There’s a huge difference between men and women in how they think about the world.
Women bring a lot of love and support and caring as opposed to being so analytical. We are not about the bottom line at Gunn Dermatology. We are about bringing joy.”
