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boy treated by a dentist affiliated with ReachOut complained of pain. His mother, Stacey Gagnon, accused the dentist of performing dental procedures on the boy without the parents' permission. Darren and Stacey Gagnon, the parents of the boy, filed a lawsuit against the individual dentist and the
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