' Bout 6 inches <| sep |> Just cause the website is called globalnews , doesn ' t make it world news . <| sep |> You actually had me spend 2 minutes looking at the card for a bowtie . <| sep |> I ' m an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the military . None of my patients pay a damn thing regardless of what they need . I know maybe 2 guys that practice in Kansas . I couldn ' t give a shit if you travel elsewhere for dental care . It works out ok for some people . It turns out very poorly for others . The latter group is left in a much more dire straights than they started . Try to find any sort of research in tooth replacement besides dental implants that is currently available for human trials . There isn ' t any . It is entirely beyond what we have know . We can barely regenerate skin with significantly varying success and that ' s orders of magnitude easier than engineering a functional , biologic tooth . Maybe 20 years from now . Maybe 50 . Maybe never . There ' s absolutely nothing now . And , just for the record , much of the literature in my specialty journal comes from Korea , Japan , Italy , Germany , Switzerland , and several South American countries . It ' s not like there ' s some secret treatment in Asia being suppressed by some dental cabal . If this existed , it would be great for our patients and could charge an astronomical amount of money for it . It wouldn ' t be a secret .