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Anthony Loren PERKINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John MATTHEWS and W. Prewett, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 13-17064.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 25, 2014.
    
    Filed July 7, 2014.
    Anthony Loren Perkins, Delano, CA, pro se.
    Before: HAWKINS, TALLMAN, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Anthony Loren Perkins appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging Eighth Amendment violations in connection with a nine-day delay in receiving dental surgery. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal for failure to state a claim under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915A and 1915(e)(2). Watison v. Carter, 668 F.3d 1108, 1112 (9th Cir.2012); Hamilton v. Brown, 630 F.3d 889, 892 (9th Cir.2011). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Perkins’s action because Perkins failed to allege facts showing that defendants knew of and disregarded an excessive risk of harm to his health. See Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1057-58,1060 (9th Cir.2004) (deliberate indifference is a high legal standard, and is met only if the prison official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to the prisoner’s health; negligence and a mere difference in medical opinion are insufficient); see also Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341-42 (9th Cir.2010) (though pro se pleadings are to be liberally construed, a plaintiff must still present factual allegations sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief).

To the extent that Perkins alleges that defendant Matthews improperly determined that the inmate appeal did not meet the criteria for an emergency appeal, he fails to state a claim because prisoners do not have a “constitutional entitlement to a specific prison grievance procedure.” Ramirez v. Galaza, 334 F.3d 850, 860 (9th Cir.2003).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.