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Dental health education is the process to change students' behavior for their dental health for their life by reasonably managing their own dental health. Furthermore, owing to educating ‘basic dental health knowledge and skill and formulating attitude and ability of dental health management, this education is the most effective way to change educatee, students’ dental health knowledge, attitude, and behavior. The purpose of this study is to change adolescents' promotion of dental health knowledge and their attitude and behavior. Furthermore, this study pursues the formulation of the base to be conducted in higher educational course by expanding current school health service in elementary and junior high educational course. Participants were 118 students taking the class of dental health and life for the second semester of 2009, this class was conducted for two hours a week, 15 weeks in total. Lecture (80%) to deliver basic knowledge regarding the common sense of dental health and relevant practice(20%) were made up of this class. The content of practical education was made up of brushing and the way of using dental floss. The analysis was conducted by SPSS program; the general characteristics was analyzed by frequency, regarding the degree of dental heath knowledge, the comparison for average was conducted; the right answer is 1, the wrong one is 0. Besides, paired-samples t-test was employed to find the change of the degree of dental health awareness before/after education by doing significant test. Results: Regarding the necessity of dental heath education before/after education, in case of “I strongly need”, and “I need”, the 80.5 % of participants supported “before education”, the 92% supported “after education”, so this result supported that dental health education should be needed for adolescents. 1. The result of difference of necessity of dental health education before/after education indicated that the difference of significance has been expressed. 2. Now that the necessity of dental health education has been promoted better after education than before education, dental health education has an effect on the promotion of necessity of dental health education. 3. The dental health education has resulted in the promotion of dental health knowledge and change of attitude. Currently, dental health education has been conducted in elementary, junior high educational course under the school health codes, but that education has not been conducted in higher educational institution, university. 4. This health education should be regularly conducted in university, higher educational institution in order to continue to manage dental health in adults' lives. 5. Legal system should be planned and implemented to conduct dental health education in higher educational institution such as university.