“Convenient” and “safe” contact lens medical care
6 features of our clinic
We also focus on contact lens medical care to be more convenient and familiar. Here are the 6 reasons why our clinic is chosen by many contact lens users.
Have you concerned about the vision even though you got prescription at an ophthalmologist ? All of our doctors are eye specialists. ORT would also perform eye tests if it is necessary. Please feel free to contact us, if you have any concern about the contact lenses or eye condition.
What is ORT?
They are called “Orthoptist” and certified by Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
They give trainings to correct eyesight and perform examinations to the patients who have problems with binocular visual function.
They perform many examinations including visual acuity, eye pressure or visual field test and then provide the data to doctors.
They support ophthalmologic medical care with technical examinations and trainings.
We would give you trial lenses with the prescription so that you can try them at home.
We have various lenses such as color, toric and biofocal, and you can try until you find a suitable one.
At our clinic, you can get suggestions until you find the lens which fits you. We attempt to fulfill patients’ requests as much as possible (e.g.: Trying different types, powers or colours of lenses)
If you meet the following conditions, you are required to come 45minutes before the closing time.
・Using/would like to try astigmatism/bifocal/ hard contact lenses
・Trying contact lens for the first time
・Would like to try several lenses
You would not be able to buy lenses without prescription, so please allow yourself plenty of time.
We recommend patients to make appointments because the clinic might be crowded.
If you are not satisfied with the contact lens you bought, you can exchange it for the one with different parameter within 3 months, and also can return it within a month.
(This guarantee is only valid the contact lens bought at the adjacent shop.)
If your conventional lens is dameged, you can exchange it to new one for only one time within one year since you bought it. (You need more than a half piece of the lens.)
You can also change the parameter for once within the same period. (Please note that you need the new prescription for it.)
Conditions of guarantee differs depending on the lens. Please ask the staff for the details.
It is about a one-minute walk from JR Shinjuku Station toward ISETAN department store.
You can come directly from the Shinjuku subway station, even on rainy days. You can check into from 11:20 to 19:30 on weekdays, from 11:00 to 19:00 on Saturdays, and from 11:00 to 18:30 on Sundays and public holidays.
Please feel free to come after work or while shopping.
We have been accepting many beginners in this clinic
You can choose from various kind of lenses, and our specialized staff would support you in choosing the lens safely.
You can get advice and practice without additional charge.
・It has wider vision than glasses, so it is suitable for sports and exercises.
・It does not fog up.(e.g.when eating hot dishes)
・It gives you brighter impression, compared to the glasses which covers your face.
・No heaviness on your nose.
・It is easier to correct the eyesight for those who have strong myopia.
・It is easier to correct the vision even if you have big differences of eyesight between both eyes.
・No need to be worried of your glasses getting wet on a rainy day.
・You might be able to get contact lenses if there is a free distribution in a disaster, if you remember the data.(Glasses have to be the right combination.)
Disadvantages
・You need to take care of them properly. Otherwise, it might cause eye diseases.
・You cannot wear contact lenses when you have certain eye diseases.
・You need to practice and learn how to put in and take out contact lenses.
・Some people cannot adopt to contact lenses(e.g. because of the allergy, etc)
・It takes time to wear contact lenses compare to glasses.
・You need to see the doctor regulary for the checkup.
・You must take it off before you get sleep.
Wearing schedule
・Do not wear the lenses beyond time period directed by the doctor.
・Follow the standard wearing schedule, and do not overuse the lenses.
・If you stop wearing contact lenses for more than a month, resume wearing them as doctors’ instruction.
For those who are under the age of 20.
Agreement form is required if you are the under age of 20, and willing to use contact lens for the first time.
Those who cannot wear contact lenses.
Doctors might not prescribe the contact lenses due to following reasons.
Example1. Eye diseasses
You cannot get the prescription if you have acute/sub-acute inflammation or infection, uveitis, corneal hypoesthesia, eyelid abnormality, ectocornea defect, dry eye, allergy, and any other diseases determined as improper for wearing contact lenses.
Especially the uveitis patients hardly can wear the contact lenses because the disease occurs inside of the eye, takes time to treat and has high risk of recurrence.
Example2. Lifestyle
Be sure to obey the instruction by the doctor, care the lenses propery, and get the regular checkup if you would like to get the presctiptiion.
In addition, some people constitutionally cannot wear contact lenses, feeling uncomfortable with them as foreign objects. In thos case, glasses woyld be rocommended , however, you can consult us if it is really necessary.
Example3. Living/Work environment
Contact lenses are extremely delicate, and not resistant to the dryness. Their substances are sometimes affected by chemicals too, so that people work under such circumstances might not be able to use contact lenses.
Japan Ophthalmological Society
Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society
Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons
Certification of Completion
Course of Ophthalmic PDT Study Group
Number of cataract surgery up to the present:About 4000
Career
2001 Graduate-Medical Department of Kumamoto University
2002 Department of Ophthalmology Kyoto University School of medicine
2002 Shimada Municipal Hospital
2008 Japanese Red Cross Society
2010 Kitano Hospital The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute
2014 Shinjuku-Higashiguchi Eye Clinic
Doctor:Fumiyo Hasegawa
(Registered Recipient of a Diploma of Ophthalmology)
Japan Ophthalmological Society
Japan Ophthalmologists Associasion
Japanese Association for Strabismus and Amblyopia(JASA)
Career
1992 Graduate- Medical Department of Teikyo Univercity
2002 The head ophthalmologist at International Catholic Hospital
2020 Shinjuku-Higashiguchi Eye Clinic
We have 7 full-time service orthoptist, 2 part-time orthoptists, 1 full-time nurse and 4 part-time nurses in our clinic.
Another several ophthalmologists are working here.
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