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The purpose of this study is to apply an oral health education program o certain high school students, and to evaluate the improvement of its knowledge and behavior, the promotion of oral health, and its satisfaction with the education through in-depth interviews, thus using all of those results as the basic data for the future oral health education to be required in high school students in Korea. For the objectives, the oral health education program was administered among 1st year students of M high school in Nowon-gu, Seoul, for the period from 28 May 2010 to 19 October 2010, followed by the interviews with five students selected among those involved in the program all the way. First, the knowledge level on oral health education has been improved significantly as a whole. Second, even with the improvement of oral health behaviors through the education, there was hardly significant on such behaviors as regular checkups and dental floss. Third, the effect of S -PHP index looked to be gradually decreased over the education sessions, with the change of brushing administration. Fourth, overall the students has been satisfied with the program educator, but not for the education methods. Taken together the those results, for the oral health promotion in high school students the education should be to be emphasized on the behavior-change objectives rather than on the knowledge-based objectives. In addition, to prevent the recurrence to the old bad behaviors there must be required the ongoing oral health education as well as the development of educational methods attracting the attention. In considering of their oral growth, particularly, such a education content as plaque removal or prophylaxis needs to be included in the further advanced education. It can be said that this study has its significance, in providing its results and implications could be used as the basic data for further developing systematic materials on the oral health education in the high school students.