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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of parents knowledge on oral health status toward their children.This study was carried out to investigate and analyze the cognitive degree of dental subjects andgeneral public who have an experience to be treated for their dental knowledge, operative dentistry,and dental prothesis in the oral health care through the questionnaires.The results are as follows : 1 : In questioning the frequency in the visitation of dental clinic, 68.8% usually go to see dentists,if children’s teeth have trouble. It was the reason that economical standard and educational levelwere enhanced as before. 57.6% took a kind of medical measures.2 : In surveying the preference of dentists’age or gender, 56.9% preferred younger dentists toolder or female dentists. On the contrary, 56.9% children want younger dentists, and 64.8% children want female dentist doctor. As a conclusion, the preference of dentists’age or gender is relevant with a view to remove bighorror, which can be evoked by dental measures.3 : In questioning the possession amount of decayed teeth, 45.8% have more than four. Usually those parents who have children filled their decayed teeth with artificial or installed with dentalprosthesis.As a conclusion, age is relevant in this study in p〈0.05 level.4 : In asking for efficient starting-year of tooth brushing, 42.6% said that 2 or 3 year age is themost efficient, and especially 80.6% teach children to learn brushing themselves. (P〈0.05)As a conclusion, the voluntary brushing can be good behaviour for good dental health.5 : In surveying the way they obtained dental information, 38.9% were given form mass media,but 90% were once not delivered with the education of dental health. Because parents have beenknown narrow and deficient information of dental health through mass media, experts in dentalhealth have to deliver help their parents to be delivered with systematical dental information.The conclusion of this study can be summarized that parents' role is very important to theirchildren's tooth health and the education program for systematical dental information should bedelivered to their parents.