Now that he's returned from his fun time with Michael Lohan in the Hamptons, Jon Gosselin is getting back to the task of being a soon-to-be-single parent.

On Wednesday, the lumpy loverboy was far from his new Manhattan bachelor pad, doing his fatherly duties by taking three of his eight children to visit the dentist — all for the benefit of the TLC film crew, of course.

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