Peter Vitruk, PhD

Founder | Vielight

Washington, DC, UNITED STATES

Dr. Peter Vitruk founded Aesculight LLC and LightScalpel LLC.

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Dr. Peter Vitruk earned his PhD degree in Physics from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute, Moscow in the late 1980s in the former USSR, and since then he held a variety of research and development positions around the globe. In the 1990s he held Research Scientist position with The Academy of Sciences in the former USSR and then a Royal Society Visiting Research Fellow position at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He later worked as Senior Scientist with Synrad Inc. in Seattle, WA, and then as Chief Scientist with Luxar/ESC/Lumenis also in Seattle, WA. In 2002 Dr. Vitruk founded Luxarcare LLC – an exclusive certified Luxar laser service and accessories provider for 12,000+ surgical Luxar laser installations around the globe. In 2005 he founded Aesculight LLC and LightScalpel LLC – the only American based designer and manufacturer of surgical CO2 lasers for small office out-patient market. Dr. Vitruk has authored 10 patents and over 20 articles on CO2 lasers, and is a Member of The Institute of Physics, UK and a Diplomate of and a Director with the American Board of Laser Surgery, USA. He is married to his wife of 31 years Natasha and they together have two children, Olga and Alexander.

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Physics

Photomedicine

Laser-Tissue Interaction Physics

Education (1)

Moscow Physics & Technology Institute: MSc, Physics

Affiliations (3)

American Board of Laser Surgery : Director Laser Physics and Safety Education
AescuLight : Founder
LightScalpel : Founder

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English
Russian
Ukrainian

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Woodinville company shows laser surgery on goldfish

Q13 Fox

2014-09-18

“Small patients, big patients, patients of any size,” said Peter Vitruk, a physicist who founded the company twenty years ago out of his basement after leaving the Soviet Union following the end of the Cold War. The key to laser surgery, he said, is that there is virtually no blood. The incisions are cauterised as they're made and he demonstrated on a tomato just how precise they are. “We're removing the skin, which is thinner than a human hair, and we're doing it with precision and control,” said Vitruk as he burned off a piece of the vegetable. Only about 20-percent of vets use surgical lasers, but Vitruk expects that number to rise when they learn more about the animals lives that can be saved...

Articles (5)

Use of a 10,600-nm CO2 Laser Mandibular Vestibular Extension in a Patient With a Chromosomal Abnormality.

Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry

2016 Vestibuloplasty involves a series of surgical procedures designed to restore alveolar ridge height by lowering the muscles attached to the buccal, labial, and lingual aspects of the jaws. The technique is indicated in cases of insufficient vestibular depth that may result from atrophy of the alveolar ridge and/or high attachment of muscle or movable mucosa. This article focuses on a carbon dioxide (CO2) laser vestibular extension procedure performed in a patient with Klinefelter syndrome, which is caused by a chromosomal abnormality.

Hemostasis and Coagulation with Ablative Soft-Tissue Dental Lasers and Hot-Tip Devices

Inside Dentistry

2016

Laser Mucocele Removal in Pediatric Patients

Dentaltown