LIFE INSURANCE

Dental procedure insights for relative mortality

Use Sikka’s LECA (Life Expectancy at Current Age) Health Risk Score® to reduce mortality slippage, provide better risk differentiation, and increase approved applications from the only consent-based oral healthcare data provider in the industry.

Sikka.ai & Life Insurance 

At Sikka.ai, we use a combination of machine learning, sophisticated large language models (LLMs) and data science to create indicators from our consent-based oral healthcare data including our proprietary LECA (Life Expectancy at Current Age) Health Risk Score® as well as the Sikka Tobacco Indicator™, all of which can help insurance companies deliver real-time decisions while maintaining mortality projections.

Accelerated underwriting

Sikka’s real-time oral health indicators and LECA score have a demonstrated ability to improve mortality slippage while maintaining relative mortality thresholds.

Real-time scoring

Sikka provides an instant LECA score on life expectancy as well as indicators that provide information on certain chronic diseases and conditions.

Validated data solutions

Sikka's data has been validated across 20 retro studies with 9M+ life insurance customers, and our LECA score and oral healthcare indicators have been tested by major carriers, reinsurers, and more.

Why Choose Us

With over 50% share of oral healthcare patient data, Sikka.ai is well-positioned to be the premier provider of this opt-in, consent-based data to the life insurance industry.  No other source can provide the same breadth and depth of oral healthcare data. We have world-class data architects and data scientists who gather, store, categorize, deliver and analyze data with precision and agility. This data is valuable to traditional insurance carriers and insurtech startups as they provide:

More accurate & consistent individual mortality estimates
Reduction in cost & time of underwriting each applicant
Improved fraud detection
More precision than expert judgment (manual underwriting)
Refined segmentation of discrete underwriting classes
Enhanced relative mortality within discrete underwriting classes

Speaker Notes

Jacqueline Waas of RGA discusses the power of Sikka’s data at AHOU 2025

At the Association of Home Office Underwriters 2025, Jacqueline Waas, VP of Underwriting Research and Development U.S. Individual Life at RGA, explains how Sikka.ai’s consent-based oral health insights can improve mortality slippage in life insurance underwriting. By supplementing traditional life underwriting data sources with dental data, carriers can gain a more holistic mortality perspective on their populations. For example, Sikka’s LECA (Life Expectancy at Current Age) Health Risk Score® analyzes dental procedure history to predict life expectancy at a person’s current age, capitalizing on the proven connection between oral health and overall mortality risk.

Recent Webinars

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Our Studies

Check out our most recent studies discussing issues and developments in life insurance underwriting:

Oral Health, Mortality and Smoker Detection

Oral health is recognized by the medical community as an important determinant of overall health, and is associated with other health conditions...
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The Referee, the Scorekeeper, and the Coach: Which Insurtech technology Are You installing?

As this insurance industry insider thought leadership piece states, Sikka Software epitomizes the Scorekeeper...
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Accuracy of Oral Health Indicators Study

ExamOne’s study was conducted to determine the accuracy (based on other data sources) of consent-b...
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Sikka Tobacco Indicator™

Sikka Tobacco Indicator™ is generated for an individual based on his or her dental clinical notes and completed...
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Connect with our team

To learn more about Sikka.ai and life insurance underwriting, please email us at insurance@sikka.ai or contact us through our website.

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