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In Somalia, oral health remains poorly integrated into health policy and service delivery within a context shaped by health\u2010system fragility, displacement, humanitarian pressures, and limited workforce capacity. This perspective synthesizes available Somalia\u2010specific evidence alongside modeled national estimates and relevant regional evidence to examine the burden, determinants, access barriers, and policy gaps surrounding oral health. It identifies major knowledge gaps, particularly the absence of comprehensive nationally representative oral health surveillance and limited evidence among rural, displaced, and other underserved populations. The article's contribution is to distinguish documented Somali evidence from regional inference while situating oral health within the country's broader universal health coverage, NCD, and humanitarian priorities. 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