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①Refraction Test

Overview: An eye exam to measure your prescription for eyeglasses or contact lenses. In this test, you will be asked to look through a device which contains lenses of different strengths which moves into your view.
Purpose: This test helps to determine the extent of your vision. It also monitors patients who are treated for eye diseases.

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②Tonometry (Eye Pressure Measurement)

Overview: An exam to measure the pressure inside your eye using a noncontact tonometry with an "air puff".
Purpose: This test helps to determine whether you have glaucoma, a disease which causes pressure to build up inside your eyes and may result in blindness.

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③Visual Acuity Test

Overview: A test to determine the smallest letters you are able tp read on a standardized chart. In this test, you will be asked to tell the direction where different sizes of rings are open like “up”, ”down”, “right”, and “left”.
Purpose: This test finds out your "best correct vision" and also helps to determine whether you have any visual problems.

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④Slit lamp Examination

Overview: An exam to check the structures at the front of your eyes. During the test, you will be asked to rest your chin and forhead on a support to keep your head steady.
Purpose: The ophthalmologist will examine your cornea, iris, lens and the anterior chamber.

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⑤Retinal Examination(Ophthalmoscopy)

Overview: An exam to check the back of your eye using a magnifying instrument (ophthalmoscope) and a light source.
Purpose: By this test, the ophthalmologist detects eye diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

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Director Yoshiko Hori　　　(A board-certified ophthalmologist Ph.D) Memberships: Japanese Ophthalmological Society Japan Ophtalmologists Association Japan Cornea Society Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons Japanese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Career 1986　Graduate- School of Medicine of Iwate Medical University 1990　Post Graduate school of Iwate Medical University 1991　Iwate prefectural Ofunato hospital 1993　Department of Ophthalmology Iwate Medical University Instructor 1993　Schepens Eye Research Institute of Harvard University 1997　Department of Ophthalmology Tokyo Dental College 1997　Minami-Aoyama　Eye　Clinic 2008　Ichikawa general hospital　Department of Ophthalmology Tokyo Dental College 2010　Ikebukuro Sunshine Street Eye Clinic (Director since 2010)
Yasuharu Noma　　(A board-certified ophthalmologist) Memberships: Japanese Ophthalmological Society Japan Ophtalmologists Association Japan Glaucoma Society The Japanese Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Career 1998　Graduate- Okayama University Faculty of Medicine 1999　Miyoshi Central Hospital 2001　Hiroshima Railway Hospital 2002　Chugoku Rosai Hospital 2003　Hiroshima University Hospital 2004　Miyoshi Central Hospital 2006　Fukushima Seikyo Hospital 2008　Ikebukuro Sunshine Street Eye Clinic Main Research Presentations “The effect of Betaxolol towards the progression of visual field defect in Glaucoma” “The retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in glaucoma cases examined by 2 types of Optical Coherence Tomographys”
Two orthoptists(full time) and a nurse(part-time).