A clinician, a researcher, and a teacher.

Dr. Pankaj P. Singh is a New York dental surgeon whose work spans clinical practice, academic research, instrumentation design, and teaching. He has built his career at the intersection of three disciplines often treated as separate: oral implantology, dental sleep medicine, and the management of jaw and orofacial pain.

His clinical home is Arch Dental of Woodbury on Long Island, where he treats patients referred from across the country for full-arch implant rehabilitation, zygomatic cases, and obstructive sleep apnea unresponsive to conventional therapy. The cases that arrive at his chair are often those that other clinicians have referred out.

As CEO and chief scientific officer of APP-NEA, a healthcare biotechnology firm, Dr. Singh applies machine learning to a problem that has resisted clean answers for decades: how to predict which patients will respond to oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea, and which will not. The work is part of a broader thesis — that medicine, and dentistry in particular, has been collecting data faster than it has been learning from it.

He holds patents on instruments now used in implant practices worldwide, including the guided precision surgery system produced by Meisinger for minimally invasive implant placement, bone harvesting, and regenerative procedures. He wrote the textbook, Atlas of Oral Implantology, now in its third edition with Mosby/Elsevier — a reference used by postgraduate programs around the world.

Outside the clinic, he lectures nationally and internationally; serves on faculty at the Foundation for Surgical Excellence, the New York Head and Neck Institute, and the Center for Facial Reconstruction at Lenox Hill Hospital; and has held positions at NYU College of Dentistry and the American Academy of Implant Dentistry’s postgraduate Maxi-Course.