Dental Phobia: Fear of Dentists, Avoidance, and Treatment
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Dental phobia is a persistent, disproportionate fear focused on dentists, dental treatment, or particular parts of dental care. It can begin long before a person sits in a dental chair: booking an appointment, hearing a drill, imagining an injection, remembering a painful procedure, or expecting loss of control may be enough to trigger intense fear. Some people keep attending while enduring severe distress. Others postpone care for months or years. The defining clinical question is whether the fear is persistent, cue-linked, out of proportion to the actual danger, and severe enough to produce marked distress, avoidance, or impairment.
Dental fear and dental anxiety are broad terms for negative emotional responses to dental care. Dentophobia and odontophobia are popular names for fear of dentists or dental treatment. The U.S. National Library of Medicine lists dental phobia, dental fear, odontophobia, and dentophobia as entry terms under Dental Anxiety in MeSH. These labels do not make every nervous dental patient clinically phobic. When the full diagnostic threshold is met, the presentation is generally understood within Specific Phobia, rather than as a separate DSM-5-TR or ICD-11 disorder named dental phobia.
This distinction matters for treatment. A person who feels tense during a root canal may need good communication, pain control, and short-term anxiety management. A person who repeatedly avoids all dental care because treatment produces overwhelming fear may need dental care and psychological treatment that directly addresses the fear-and-avoidance pattern. A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials explicitly separated acute state anxiety during dental treatment, chronic dental trait anxiety, and dental phobia. Evidence for one target should not automatically be transferred to the others.
This article owns the dental-phobia search intent: fear of dentists and dental treatment, avoidance, assessment, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based treatment. For the wider diagnostic category, see Specific Phobia: Symptoms, Types, Diagnosis, and Treatment. For the broader family, see Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms, Types, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
What Is Dental Phobia?
Dental phobia refers to a severe and persistent fear associated with dental care. The feared object is not always literally the dentist. One person may fear injections. Another may fear drilling, pain, choking, gagging, blood, numbness, being unable to stop a procedure, receiving bad news, being judged for the condition of their teeth, or having a previous frightening experience repeated.
Dentophobia and odontophobia can be useful descriptive search terms. They are not separate formal diagnoses. A clinician diagnoses the disorder that best fits the symptom pattern and threshold rather than diagnosing a Greek-derived fear name from the label alone.
Dental fear, dental anxiety, and dental phobia
Dental fear is often used for a threat response to an identifiable stimulus such as an injection, drill, extraction, or pain. Dental anxiety can include anticipatory apprehension and may be less tightly tied to one immediate stimulus. Dental phobia describes the severe end of the clinical spectrum when the pattern meets requirements for a phobic disorder. Research often uses the umbrella expression dental fear and anxiety because samples may contain people with mild fear, high anxiety, and clinically significant phobia together.
A 2021 systematic review and meta-analysis of 31 adult studies estimated dental fear and anxiety at 15.3%, high dental fear and anxiety at 12.4%, and severe dental fear and anxiety at 3.3%. Most included studies were judged at high risk of bias. A 2026 meta-analysis using a Modified Dental Anxiety Scale threshold of 19 or higher estimated high dental anxiety at 18%, with substantial heterogeneity. Neither figure is the population prevalence of formally diagnosed dental phobia.
Is Dental Phobia a DSM-5-TR or ICD-11 Diagnosis?
DSM-5-TR does not create a standalone disorder called Dental Phobia, Dentophobia, or Odontophobia. The relevant formal diagnosis is Specific Phobia when its full requirements are satisfied. The APA Dictionary of Psychology definition of specific phobia emphasizes marked, persistent, cue-linked fear that is out of proportion to actual danger or context and leads to avoidance or marked distress.
Dental fear does not fit one identical subtype in every person. Dental procedures can overlap with the blood-injection-injury domain when needles, blood, injury, or invasive procedures are central. Other people primarily fear the dental situation, loss of control, gagging, pain, or a particular procedure. Clinical formulation should follow the actual fear structure rather than forcing every dental fear into the same subtype.
ICD-11 places Specific Phobia inside Anxiety or fear-related disorders. The World Health Organization's Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders provide the current clinical framework. Dental phobia remains a descriptive topic label rather than an independent ICD-11 disorder.
For the diagnostic architecture, see Specific Phobia DSM-5-TR Criteria Explained and Specific Phobia ICD-11 Diagnostic Requirements Explained.
Dental Phobia Symptoms
Symptoms can begin before any procedure starts. A person may become distressed while searching for a dentist, making an appointment, receiving a reminder, entering a clinic, smelling antiseptic products, hearing equipment, seeing a needle, or imagining the sensations of treatment.
Fear and anticipatory anxiety
Emotional symptoms can include dread, panic-like fear, helplessness, disgust, shame, anger, or a powerful urge to escape. Cognitive symptoms can include repeated images of something going wrong, overestimation of pain, predictions that local anesthetic will fail, fear of fainting, fear of choking or gagging, and fear that the dentist will not stop.
Anxiety may rise for days before an appointment and interfere with sleep, concentration, or daily routines. Anticipation can become more distressing than the appointment itself, making cancellation feel immediately relieving.
Physical and panic-like symptoms
Fear can activate autonomic arousal: a racing heart, sweating, trembling, muscle tension, nausea, dry mouth, shortness of breath, chest tightness, dizziness, or feeling hot or cold. A panic attack can occur in a dental setting, but a panic attack is an episode rather than a diagnosis. A cue-bound panic response to dental treatment does not by itself establish Panic Disorder.
New, severe, unexplained, or medically concerning physical symptoms should not be attributed to anxiety simply because they occurred at the dentist. Dental pain, medication effects, airway problems, allergic reactions, syncope, cardiovascular symptoms, and other medical causes require their own assessment when relevant.
Fainting and blood-injection-injury overlap
Some people have fainting or near-fainting responses around needles, blood, or invasive procedures. That pattern may point toward blood-injection-injury fear and vasovagal physiology rather than a generic fear of dentists. See Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia, Needle Phobia, and Hemophobia.
Avoidance and safety behaviors
Avoidance can mean not booking appointments, cancelling repeatedly, leaving the waiting room, refusing radiographs, declining an injection, or seeking care only when pain becomes intolerable. It can also be subtle: attending only with a particular companion, repeatedly seeking reassurance, or agreeing to care only when immediate escape feels guaranteed.
Some accommodations support safe treatment. Others can become rigid safety behaviors that preserve the belief that ordinary dental care is impossible without them. The distinction depends on whether a strategy supports engagement and learning or makes participation increasingly conditional.
Why Dental Avoidance Can Become Self-Reinforcing
Avoidance works quickly in the short term. Cancelling an appointment removes the feared situation and anxiety often falls. That immediate relief can teach the nervous system that avoidance was protective, increasing the chance of future avoidance. The broader mechanism is explained in Anxiety and Avoidance: How Avoidance Maintains Fear.
Preventive care may be missed, small problems may become larger, and the person may eventually seek care only when pain or infection makes treatment more urgent or invasive. More urgent treatment can then feel more frightening, strengthening the original belief that dentistry is dangerous. This vicious-cycle formulation is clinically useful but does not mean every fearful patient will develop poor oral health.
Shame can add another layer. After long avoidance, a person may fear criticism about missed appointments or the condition of their teeth as much as they fear the procedure itself. A respectful dental team can reduce this barrier by discussing present needs without moral judgment.
What Causes Dental Phobia?
Dental phobia has no single universal cause. Evidence supports a multifactorial model in which learning history, pain, perceived control, temperament, information from other people, and broader psychological vulnerability can contribute in different combinations. A review by Beaton, Freeman, and Humphris on why people are afraid of the dentist described direct learning from distressing experiences, vicarious learning, and endogenous factors. A risk factor does not prove why one individual developed a phobia.
Previous painful or frightening experiences
A painful procedure, unexpected pain, feeling trapped, difficulty breathing, gagging, a frightening injection, distress during childhood treatment, or a clinician who continued despite a request to stop can become a powerful learning event. Later cues that resemble the event may trigger anticipatory fear even when the current dentist and procedure are different.
Loss of control and unpredictability
Dental treatment combines reclining, limited ability to speak, unfamiliar sensations, close physical proximity, noise, vibration, injections, and uncertainty about what will happen next. For some patients the central fear is not pain itself but the belief that they will be unable to stop the procedure.
Pain expectation and anxiety
A systematic review and meta-analysis on anxiety and pain in dental treatment found associations between dental anxiety and pain across treatment stages and found that pretreatment state anxiety predicted expected pain. This does not mean pain is all anxiety. Pain assessment, anesthesia, communication, and anxiety management belong in the same plan.
Learning from family, peers, and media
Fear can be learned indirectly through frightening stories, observing another person's distress, or repeated messages that dental treatment is dangerous or unbearable. In children, family anxiety and modeling may be especially relevant. These are probabilistic influences rather than deterministic causes.
Trauma history and other vulnerabilities
Some people experience dental care as especially difficult because aspects of the setting overlap with earlier traumatic experiences: physical closeness, restraint, inability to speak, sensory cues, or loss of control. A 2025 scoping review of severe dental anxiety and trauma histories found a notable research gap for survivors of torture or abuse. Trauma-informed care can be important, while a history of trauma does not automatically turn dental fear into PTSD.
For the wider evidence on fear learning, see What Causes Specific Phobias? Learning, Temperament, and Fear Conditioning.
How Dental Phobia Is Assessed
Assessment should answer two different questions. First, how intense and functionally important is the dental fear? Second, what diagnosis, if any, best explains it? A questionnaire can help with the first question. Diagnosis requires the second.
The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale
The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, or MDAS, is a brief five-item measure covering common dental situations, including local anesthetic injection. The original MDAS validation study and subsequent psychometric work support its use as a dental-anxiety measure. NHS England's clinical standards for dental anxiety management use the MDAS as one component of assessment and describe scores of 19 or more as severe or phobic-range anxiety.
A high MDAS score is not a formal diagnosis. It is a screening and severity signal. A 2021 systematic review on differentiating dental anxiety from dental phobia supports combining questionnaires with behavioral observation and clinical assessment. Diagnosis still depends on the pattern, persistence, proportionality, avoidance or distressed endurance, impairment, and differential diagnosis.
What a clinical assessment looks for
A careful assessment asks what exactly is feared, when the fear began, how often it occurs, what situations trigger it, what the person predicts will happen, whether they avoid care, how fear affects daily life and oral health, and what previous dental experiences matter.
Assessment also reviews medical history, medication and substance use, pain, fainting history, trauma history when relevant, and other anxiety or mental health symptoms. Fear before a genuinely painful untreated dental problem or a previous anesthesia complication has a different meaning from a persistent response that remains far greater than current risk.
For the broader assessment process, see How Is Anxiety Diagnosed? Assessment, History, and Differential Diagnosis.
Dental Phobia Differential Diagnosis and Overlap
Several conditions can produce dental avoidance or intense distress. Their presence changes treatment planning, and more than one can occur at the same time.
Needle phobia and blood-injection-injury phobia
If the dominant trigger is the injection rather than dentistry as a whole, needle phobia may be the better formulation. If blood, injury, invasive procedures, and fainting are central across medical as well as dental settings, blood-injection-injury phobia may be more accurate. Dental phobia can overlap with either, but the terms should not be collapsed.
Panic attacks and Panic Disorder
A dental procedure can trigger a panic attack. That does not establish Panic Disorder. Panic Disorder is defined by recurrent unexpected panic attacks and persistent concern or behavioral change related to additional attacks; a panic response reliably tied to one dental trigger may fit a phobic formulation instead.
Agoraphobia
A person may fear being unable to leave the dental chair or clinic, but one escape-related thought does not make the presentation Agoraphobia. Agoraphobia concerns a broader pattern across multiple types of situations in which escape or help may feel difficult.
Social anxiety and shame
Fear of criticism about oral hygiene, bad breath, damaged teeth, appearance, or missed appointments can add a social-evaluative component. If fear extends broadly to scrutiny across social situations, Social Anxiety Disorder may need assessment. If judgment is specific to dental care, it can remain part of the dental fear formulation.
Trauma-related disorders
A previous dental event can be remembered as traumatic, and trauma histories can affect dental care. PTSD requires its own diagnostic pattern, including qualifying trauma exposure and characteristic symptom clusters. Dental avoidance alone does not establish PTSD.
OCD and contamination concerns
A person may avoid dental care because of intrusive contamination fears or compulsive rules rather than a circumscribed phobic fear. When obsessions and compulsions organize the avoidance, OCD has its own diagnostic territory and treatment model.
Sensory and neurodevelopmental factors
Noise, bright light, texture, taste, touch, interoceptive sensitivity, communication differences, and unpredictability can make dental care difficult for autistic people, people with ADHD, or anyone with strong sensory sensitivities. Sensory distress should be assessed on its own terms. It does not become dental phobia simply because a dental visit is avoided.
Medical and dental problems
Dental pain, temporomandibular symptoms, breathing difficulty, a history of adverse reactions, syncope, medication effects, or other medical issues can shape fear. A psychological formulation should never be used to dismiss a symptom that needs dental or medical evaluation.
Dental Phobia Treatment: What the Evidence Shows
Treatment has two parallel goals: helping the person receive necessary dental care and reducing the fear-and-avoidance pattern over time. Sometimes those goals can be addressed together. Sometimes urgent dental needs require short-term anxiety management while longer-term psychological treatment proceeds separately.
The strongest recent disorder-specific evidence comes from Steenen and colleagues' 2024 systematic review and meta-analyses of 173 randomized controlled trials. For chronic dental trait anxiety, moderate-certainty evidence supported CBT. For dental phobia, low-to-moderate-certainty evidence supported psychotherapy and CBT specifically. The review also showed why treatment claims must remain target-specific: interventions that reduce state anxiety during oral surgery are not automatically treatments for chronic dental phobia.
An earlier systematic review of psychological treatment of adult dental anxiety found that behavioral and cognitive-behavioral interventions reduced dental anxiety and could improve acceptance of conventional dental treatment, while judging the evidence low quality. The modern evidence base is larger, but certainty still varies by intervention and outcome.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Dental-focused CBT works with catastrophic predictions, avoidance, attention to threat, perceived lack of control, and gradual behavioral practice. The person identifies the feared prediction, tests it in a controlled way, remains in contact with the feared situation long enough for new learning to occur, and builds a more accurate expectation of current dental care.
NHS England's clinical standards place CBT among advanced dental-anxiety management approaches and describe it as a long-term rehabilitative strategy that can support return to routine dental care.
Exposure therapy
Exposure is a central behavioral component for phobic avoidance. The aim is planned, repeated contact with feared dental cues while the person learns that anxiety can be tolerated and that feared outcomes are less inevitable than expected. Exposure is individualized rather than performed as a dramatic face-your-worst-fear exercise.
A hierarchy might begin with reading about a dental visit or looking at photographs, then visiting the clinic without treatment, sitting in the chair, hearing equipment, tolerating an examination, and eventually completing progressively more feared procedures. The exact sequence depends on the person's fear structure and dental needs.
For the broader mechanism and evidence base, see Exposure Therapy for Specific Phobia and Specific Phobia Treatment: Exposure Therapy and What Evidence Shows.
Behavioral experiments and rebuilding control
Behavioral experiments test a specific belief rather than merely enduring anxiety. A person who predicts the dentist will not stop if they raise a hand can agree on a stop signal and test it during a low-intensity part of the visit. Someone who predicts that seeing an instrument will immediately cause uncontrollable panic can observe it while tracking what actually happens.
Communication, pacing, and dental-team accommodations
Good dental care can reduce unnecessary threat without turning every accommodation into avoidance. NHS England lists rapport building, environmental change, enhanced control, treatment staging, longer appointments, and structured communication among anxiety-management approaches.
Practical examples include agreeing on a stop signal, explaining steps before they happen, asking permission before touch, allowing brief pauses, scheduling a consultation before treatment, and separating assessment from invasive procedures when clinically feasible.
Pain control matters
Psychological treatment should not be used to minimize real dental pain. Local anesthesia, appropriate analgesia, clear procedural communication, and responsive clinical technique remain essential. Because anxiety can increase expected and experienced pain, good pain management and anxiety treatment can reinforce each other.
Conscious Sedation, Medication, and General Anesthesia
Conscious sedation can make necessary dental care possible for some people with severe anxiety, complex treatment needs, or difficulty tolerating care. It is a clinical procedure with indications, contraindications, monitoring requirements, and consent requirements. It should be planned by appropriately trained dental or medical professionals after individual assessment.
NHS England treats behavioral methods and conscious sedation as complementary rather than mutually exclusive. Sedation can reduce acute distress and enable a procedure; CBT and exposure aim to change the longer-term fear-and-avoidance pattern. A successful sedated appointment therefore does not by itself prove that the phobia has been treated.
The 2024 Steenen review found low-certainty evidence that benzodiazepines can reduce acute state anxiety during oral surgery. That finding concerns short-term procedural anxiety, not long-term treatment of dental phobia. It should not be interpreted as a recommendation to self-medicate before dental care.
General anesthesia can be appropriate for selected treatment circumstances, but it is not a psychological treatment for a phobic disorder. Urgency, medical status, treatment complexity, available services, and patient preference all influence the care plan.
Does Virtual Reality Treat Dental Phobia?
Virtual reality research covers at least two purposes: distraction during a dental procedure and exposure intended to change a phobic fear. These are different intervention targets.
A 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis of extended reality for adult dental anxiety reported reductions in anxiety and pain across included randomized trials, but heterogeneity was high and the authors called for larger, more rigorous studies. Much of this literature concerns state anxiety during treatment.
For diagnosed dental phobia, the 2024 Steenen meta-analysis did not find support for virtual reality exposure therapy in the pooled dental-phobia analysis. VR may be useful as a procedural adjunct or one way to deliver exposure in selected contexts, but it has not displaced established CBT and exposure approaches.
What About Hypnosis, Relaxation, Music, and Distraction?
A 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis of hypnosis for dental anxiety and phobia concluded that evidence was insufficient for a confident treatment effect. The 2024 Steenen review found moderate-certainty evidence for hypnosis reducing acute state anxiety during oral surgery, while evidence for many other state-anxiety strategies remained inconclusive or unsupported in pooled analyses.
Relaxation, music, distraction, guided imagery, and breathing exercises can be useful coping tools during care. They should be presented as tools for managing distress rather than universal cures for a phobic disorder.
How to Prepare for a Dental Visit When You Are Afraid
Tell the dental office that anxiety or phobia is a major issue when booking. Ask whether the practice routinely works with highly anxious patients. If possible, arrange an assessment before an invasive procedure so the first task is understanding the problem rather than immediately completing the hardest treatment.
Describe the specific trigger
I am afraid of injections, I gag when instruments go far back, I panic when I cannot speak, and I need to know what is happening before you touch me are more actionable descriptions than I hate dentists. A good plan matches the intervention to the trigger.
Build a control plan
Agree on a stop signal and test it early. Ask how pain will be prevented and what the plan is if anesthesia is incomplete. Discuss whether shorter visits, treatment staging, positioning changes, sensory adjustments, a support person, or conscious sedation are clinically appropriate.
Avoid improvised self-medication
Do not use alcohol, someone else's medication, or extra doses of prescribed sedatives to force yourself through an appointment. If sedation is part of the plan, follow the dental team's instructions about medication, food, transport, supervision, and post-procedure restrictions.
When Dental Care Is Urgent
Dental phobia can create a dangerous delay when a person waits for fear to disappear before seeking care. Severe or rapidly worsening dental pain, swelling, fever, trauma, persistent bleeding, or difficulty swallowing or breathing may require urgent assessment. The appropriate service depends on the symptom and local health system.
Fear can be addressed at the same time as urgent care. It should not be used as a reason to assume that a potentially significant dental or medical problem is just anxiety.
Dental Phobia in Children and Adolescents
Dental fear often begins early, but pediatric dental anxiety should not be treated as a miniature version of adult dental phobia. Developmental stage, family behavior, previous experiences, communication abilities, sensory needs, and the child's ability to understand the procedure all matter.
A 2017 review of dental anxiety in youth emphasized distinguishing anxiety from phobia. A 2018 systematic review of CBT for anxious pediatric dental patients found reductions in anxiety and improved cooperation but rated the evidence low quality. A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis of nonpharmacological behavioral interventions in children also found substantial heterogeneity.
What parents and caregivers can do
Parents can help by giving accurate, calm information without making frightening predictions or promising that a procedure will be completely sensation-free. Pediatric dental teams may use developmentally appropriate approaches such as tell-show-do, modeling, gradual familiarization, distraction, and structured behavior guidance.
How Long Does Dental Phobia Treatment Take?
There is no universal number of sessions. Duration depends on severity, what is feared, how much care is currently needed, whether the person has avoided dentistry for years, medical and dental complexity, comorbid conditions, and access to trained providers.
Functional change matters more than a fixed session count. Signs of progress include being able to book and attend appointments, tolerating previously avoided steps, needing fewer rigid safety behaviors, recovering more quickly after anxiety rises, and receiving preventive rather than emergency-only dental care.
Can Dental Phobia Come Back?
Fear can increase again after a painful procedure, a long gap in care, a new medical problem, or a difficult experience. Exposure learning is strengthened by continued contact with ordinary dental care, especially when visits remain predictable and collaborative. A maintenance plan may include regular preventive visits, early discussion of new triggers, and booster work if avoidance starts returning.
What Evidence Is Established, Preliminary, or Uncertain?
Established or comparatively well supported
Dental fear and dental anxiety exist on a spectrum, and severe persistent cases can meet criteria for Specific Phobia. Validated questionnaires such as the MDAS can quantify dental anxiety but do not replace diagnosis. CBT has the strongest modern evidence for chronic dental anxiety and dental phobia. Communication, control, and individualized planning are core elements of anxiety management.
Supported with important limitations
Exposure-based methods are central to phobia treatment and commonly integrated into dental-focused CBT. Conscious sedation can enable care for selected patients but serves a different purpose from long-term phobia treatment. Technology-based approaches such as VR can reduce state anxiety in some dental settings, but results vary by intervention and outcome.
Preliminary, mixed, or contested
No single technique works for every dental fear. Evidence is weaker or inconsistent for many complementary interventions when the outcome is diagnosed dental phobia rather than temporary procedural anxiety. Claims that one session, one sedative, hypnosis, relaxation, or VR cures dental phobia exceed what current evidence supports. Research also remains limited for complex trauma histories and many pediatric subgroups.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dental Phobia
What is the fear of dentists called?
Common names include dental phobia, dentophobia, and odontophobia. When a clinically significant pattern meets full diagnostic requirements, it is generally diagnosed within Specific Phobia rather than as a separate disorder named Dentophobia.
Is dental phobia the same as dental anxiety?
No. Dental anxiety ranges from mild apprehension to severe anxiety. Dental phobia refers to a severe persistent pattern that reaches the clinical threshold for a phobic disorder.
Can dental phobia cause a panic attack?
Yes. A dental trigger can provoke a panic attack, but a panic attack in a dental setting does not automatically mean Panic Disorder is present.
Can a dental anxiety questionnaire diagnose me?
No. The MDAS and similar questionnaires measure dental anxiety and can support screening and care planning. Diagnosis requires clinical evaluation of the full pattern and alternative explanations.
Can sedation cure dental phobia?
Sedation can make treatment possible and reduce acute distress for selected patients. It does not by itself change the learned fear-and-avoidance pattern.
What treatment has the strongest evidence?
For chronic dental anxiety and dental phobia in adults, current randomized-trial evidence most strongly supports psychological treatment, particularly CBT. Exposure is a central component of phobia-focused behavioral treatment.
What if my real fear is the injection?
The main problem may be needle phobia rather than dental phobia, or both may be present. Blood-injection-injury phobia should be considered when blood, injury, invasive procedures, or fainting are central across medical settings.
What if I have avoided the dentist for years?
Long avoidance does not make treatment impossible. A first goal may be assessment and a staged return to care rather than completing every procedure at once.
Should I tell my dentist I have dental phobia?
Yes. Specific information about triggers, previous experiences, panic, fainting, gagging, pain concerns, and what helps you feel in control gives the dental team a better basis for planning safe care.
Is fear of the dentist always caused by a bad childhood experience?
No. A frightening or painful experience is one pathway, but dental fear is multifactorial. Some people learn fear from others, some are especially sensitive to pain or loss of control, and some cannot identify a single starting event.
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