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In accordance with Freud's early views, dreams involving the loss of teeth are often understood as suggesting themes of castration and punishment. This paper, based on several case examples, suggests that such dream elements are often symbolic of anxieties about aging and the resulting physical decline and that castration anxieties may be only secondarily present.