College of Dentistry
Astha Singhal Research Group
Led by Astha Singhal · Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science
What we study
The Singhal Lab studies oral cancer diagnosis and outcomes, focusing on Medicaid dental coverage and dental utilization. The research involves analyzing data related to dental care access and its impact on cancer outcomes.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Project
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- Papers
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Current projects
Oral Cancer Diagnosis and Outcomes: Role of Medicaid Dental Coverage and Dental Utilization
Investigating how Medicaid dental coverage affects oral cancer diagnosis and patient outcomes.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Medicaid Dental Cuts and Emergency Department Utilization: Implications of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act
2026 · Journal of the California Dental Association
Predicts how Medicaid cuts may increase emergency dental visits and costs.
- Medicaid dental coverage and racial/ethnic variation in preventive dental care and unmet needs during pregnancy
2026 · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Examines how Medicaid dental coverage affects preventive care and unmet needs during pregnancy.
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- Unpacking X (formerly Twitter) discourse on fluoride and related topics during the 2024 US presidential election
2026 · The Journal of the American Dental Association
- Multiteacher Knowledge Distillation for Canine Scoring Using Dental Panoramic Radiographs to Support Primary Care
2026 · International Dental Journal
Tests whether combining multiple AI models improves canine dental X-ray grading.
- $$\mathcal {EAT}$$ : explainable attentive transformers for identifying the factors influencing dental visits to enhance dental data completeness
2025 · BMC Oral Health
Uses AI to identify factors influencing dental visits and improve data completeness.
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How to reach out
Astha Singhal hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.