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This study was to investigate the oral health survey of oral health care for 123 guardians who takes care of their children with mental retardation, autistic disorder, cerebral palsy, and redundant failure among disabilities visiting the disabled center facilities in Gyeongnam province and Ulsan city from 11 to 22 March, 2013. All study variables were summarized as mean and standard deviation(SD) or frequency and percent by descriptive statistics. For univariate analysis, the answering distributions of the each questionnaire item according to the socio-demographic characteristics tested by chi-squared test procedure, and the mean differences of oral health practice and knowledge according to socio-demographics characteristics were confirmed by t-test or one-way ANOVA procedure. If there was statistically significant in one-way ANOVA, a subsequent post-hoc comparison was conducted using Duncan's method. Statistical analyses were conducted by PASW Statistics 19.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA), and considered statistically significant as a p-value of <0.05. 1. Oral heath practice of guardians(3.26, ±0.517, p=0.05) was the highest according to the type of disabled children. 2. Oral health knowledge of guardians(15.76±2.166, p<.001) was the highest in the mental retardation group according to the type of disabled children. 3. The oral health practice and knowledge in the group who have experienced oral health education was higher than the opposite group 3.29, 14.84, p<0.05). 4. There was a positive correlation between oral health status and knowledge of guardians who takes care of their disabled children(r=0.387, p<0.01). Oral health practice and knowledge for disabled children is important. Therefore, it is necessary to have oral health education for guardians of disabled children. We suggest that oral health professionals should be also placed on oral health education of disabled children.