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May this forever remain strictly a German phenomenon

    A German mother was fined $116.9 because her 8-year-old daughter refused to open her mouth for the school dentist.


    “The dentist wanted to check her teeth, but the girl was afraid and refused to open her mouth. So the dentist reported her,” a court spokesman in the central town of Wernigerode said on Thursday.

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