Resumen
Oral health in Mexico continues to be treated
as a peripheral component of the health
system, despite its high burden of disease
and its undeniable, well-documented
interaction with noncommunicable diseases
(NCDs). This omission is not merely clinical or
academic, but profoundly political. The
coexistence and mutual reinforcement of oral
diseases and NCDs constitute a true
syndemic, understood as the convergence of
multiple health conditions that share social
determinants, risk factors, and cumulative
adverse effects. In the Mexican context, this
oral health–NCD syndemic clearly reveals a
structural failure in public policy that affects
millions of people and has, regrettably,
become normalized within the current
regulatory framework.