This 10th Annual Congress on CONTROVERSIES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY meeting which focuses on Ophthalmic Research, contains approximately 57 abstracts and 21 poster presentation written in English. Topics include retina of a retinitis pigmentosa,animal differential diagnosis in pharmacy office with and without optometry section, lipid metabolism, polymorphisms with age-related macular degeneration ,thioredoxin retinal degeneration, macular layer segmentation,optical coherence tomography in glaucoma, langerhans cell histiocytosis, ocular surface temperature, aqueous-deficient dry eye, brain volume, visoperceptive damage in premature children, retinopathy of prematurity incidence, cellular interactions, retinal degeneration in retinitis pigmentosa mitochondrial function, oral supplementation of r-lipoic acid, bilateral retinal detachment after laser photocoagulation, different lipid layer patterns, pars planitis in childhood, epiretinal membrane and glaucoma progression in smokers.