Schulze Eye & Surgery Center

02/23/2026

For the past nine years, our community has honored Dr. Richard Schulze, Jr. as Best Doctor in Ophthalmology. This year, we need your help to make it 10 years in a row — but first, he must be nominated!

If Dr. Schulze has helped improve your vision, guided you through cataract surgery, or provided care that made a difference in your life, we would be truly grateful for your nomination.

Being recognized for a decade straight would be an incredible milestone — and it’s only possible because of the trust and support of our amazing patients.

🗳️ How to Nominate (It Only Takes a Minute!)

Visit the nomination page here: https://savannahmagazine.com/best-of-doctors/vote-best-of-doctors/

Enter your information.

Scroll down to the doctor categories:

#51 — Ophthalmologist → Nominate Dr. Richard Schulze, Jr.

#52 — Optometrist → Nominate Dr. Taylor Scheurer

Submit your nomination!

✨ Your nomination helps us continue delivering exceptional eye care to our community and highlights the dedication of our doctors.

Winners will be announced in our September/October 2026 issue. Vote by April 1 and help others find exemplary care.

05/02/2025

Many thanks to the Savannah Fire Department for fixing the rope on our flagpole so we can proudly fly our flag again. SFD rocks!

04/22/2025

Another happy patient, seeing better than 20/20 on the first postoperative day. stands for small incision lenticule extraction. It is the newest laser vision procedure for nearsightedness, and we are proud to be the first practice in Georgia or South Carolina to offer SMILE Pro with the Zeiss Visumax 800. If you’re tired of wearing glasses and contacts, come see us. We can help you.

04/16/2025

Two generations of happy refractive surgery patients. Mom had LASIK with us many years ago; her daughter had the newer SMILE, Pro procedure with Visumax 800 laser yesterday. We are proud to be the first practice in Georgia or South Carolina to offer the SMILE Pro procedure. Come see us if you want better vision without glasses.

03/18/2025

From our colleagues at Mann Eye in Houston. We couldn’t agree more: the ICL is life changing!

03/04/2025

We sincerely hope you are happy with the care you have received in our practice. As a means of reaching out to more patients like you in the community, we would like for you to vote for us in the Savannah Magazine Best Doctors 2025 poll. Thanks to all of you who voted for Dr. Schulze, he won 8 years in a row as Best Ophthalmologist (2017 – 2024)! We appreciate your trust in Dr. Schulze. Voting is easy! Please open the link below, scroll down to #49, and vote for Dr. Richard R. Schulze, Jr., under the “Best Ophthalmologist” category in Savannah Magazine’s Best of Doctors 2025 Edition. While you’re there, vote for your favorites in other specialties as well. It will take less than five minutes to complete. Please share this link and ask family and friends to vote as well! Hurry, the voting ends April 1st! Thank you for your help again this year! We look forward to serving you in 2025!
https://savannahmagazine.com/best-of-doctors/vote-best-of-doctors/

02/20/2025

https://youtu.be/dAAzzPgArtk?si=l45ET-VqmootAcHa

So I was researching some corneal surgery techniques and I came across this video I posted 10 years ago of sutureless corneal transplantation. We were one of the first centers in the country to begin doing corneal transplants without stitches.

DMEK performed by Dr. Richard Schulze, Jr

02/19/2025

Another happy patient. Told he was not a good LASIK candidate, we were able to correct his vision with the ICL and restore his vision to better than 20/20 in each eye. If you’ve been told you can’t have LASIK come see us; we might be able to help you with the ICL or other procedures like SMILE or PRK.

02/08/2025

I was aware of 2025 being the 75th anniversary of the IOL, but didn’t realize that today was the actual day. The Ridley story is fascinating; there have been books written about it. My father trained in London for a year in 1965; he knew the nurse that assisted in Ridley’s first operation.

Ridley also discovered the cause of River Blindness in Africa (onchocerciasis volvula) and pioneered treatment for it, saving untold millions from blindness from that too.

It is a travesty that he never won the Nobel Prize. A group of us from ASCRS tried to make this happen without success prior to his death.

I never met him but I did get to see him at a medical meeting 25 years ago. He was absolutely vilified for most of his career; it wasn’t until the 80’s that his contributions were finally appreciated

Seventy-five years ago, Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

01/29/2025

Ten million SMILEs! We were thrilled to receive these materials from Zeiss today letting us know that the 10 million eye threshold with SMILE has now been passed worldwide.

What is SMILE, you ask? SMILE is an acronym for “Small Incision Lenticule Extraction”, the newest procedure for treating nearsightedness and astigmatism. Less invasive than LASIK, it also allows for quick recovery of vision.

We’re happy to be recognized by Zeiss as one of the surgeons contributing to this milestone.

Check out our website at https://schulze-eye.com/patient-education/smile-lasik-for-myopia-and-astigmatism/ to learn more about the SMILE procedure.

Then come see us for a free consultation to see how we can bring a SMILE to your face with better vision.

01/23/2025

We offer custom cataract surgery and refractive surgery to improve the lives of our patients.

01/23/2025

We're proud to be the first practice in Georgia or South Carolina to offer laser vision correction with the Zeiss Visumax 800 for the SMILE Pro procedure.

Check out our website at www.Schulze-Eye.com to learn more about this new technology and how you can afford it for less than a cup of coffee per day, then call us at (912) 352-3120 to make an appointment for a free consultation.

We offer custom cataract surgery and refractive surgery to improve the lives of our patients.