Thank you very much for taking the time to look at the xray and give
me this opinion!

I guess I'll just have to live with using those little brushes that go
in the holes between the crowns, to get the impacted food that gets
stuck in there EVERY time I eat! It's better than not having teeth
there, at all.

I was not asked if I wanted a bridge of 3 crowns or 3 individual
implant crowns there. The surgeon apparently just decided that was
what was needed and that was that. I'd much rather have had 3 implant
crowns, and yes, I could have paid for them but was not consulted on
this.

I had these done at a dental school, and one problem I had was that I
often did not get to consult with the professors, the student just
told me what he thought should be done and even when I asked to
consult with the prof it was very difficult to get a meeting with him.
The prof was there when the surgery was done and I remember him doing
a good job of supervision during the surgery. But before and after the
surgery it was for all practical purposes, impossible to meet with
him. I suppose I could have been more aggressive about asking for an
appt. but I got the impression that they just didn't want to do it. I
have to assume that the prof approved everything before it was done.

This particularly became a problem when I went in for my upper
implants and they told me they had to do a bone graft, that they'd be
scraping bone from my jawbone or something. I was not at all prepared
for that, they had led me to believe that it was only a sinus lift I
needed. So I was quite surprised to hear I was going to have a bone
graft.

The bone graft was very painful, afterwards, and traumatic while it
was being done, even though it didn't "hurt" per se, at the time. Hurt
like hell afterwards.

What was worse though was the sinus lift. I had a headache for 2 weeks
after that. For the first few days it was so bad I had to wear dark
glasses even in the living room at night, to watch tv. I was afraid
they did permanent damage to some optical nerve or something because
my eyes became super sensitive to light and I had a constant headache
for a week or two. Finally it went away. But I'll never forget that
pounding on my sinus bone that must have gone on for like 20 minutes
or more. It seemed like an eternity!

As for the crown placement, the profs there were easier to consult
with, but by that time it was too late to change anything, it seemed.
The prof there did tell me that the implants and crowns were done well
and this was the best I could expect. But I was afraid he was just
saying that to avoid having to re-do anything.

I must say that they did a great job on the Bite of the crowns against
my natural teeth, at least on the bridge side. On the other side I
don't have any opposing teeth, yet. I get the other 2 crowns in Sept.
or October.

In case you want or need to take another look, or if another dentist
wants to give his or her opinion, here is the info from the other
thread:

Implants 18, 19, 20 and 29.  I believe the name of them is
Nobelbiocare. #19 and #20 are "Branemark MkIII Groovy RP 4x10 #3,4,18
and 29 are Branemark Speedy Groovy 4x10

Here is a jpg of the xray and info the surgeon wrote on it:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/3784/implantxrayrevag4.jpg