<![CDATA[Oral hygiene is ones of local factor that has a dominant determination in oral disease. In spite of it, the childrens oral health has an influence on good behavior to oral health status. The behavior is a very complex any thing that involves internal or external aspect, even psychological and physical. Elementary at the age of II -1 2 years of school student has already able to think rationally and precisely based on their mperience, along with the family support, in order to keep oral hygiene, but in the village, the reality of oral hygiene is still low.Based on those thoughts the aim of this research is to found the level of children oral hygiene at the age of II-I2 years. The object of this research is Wonokromo village in the border city of Kebulnen conï¬ne between Sawangan village and Kaliputih village. The samples of this research are I13 students that consist of 56 boys and 57 girls from three elementary schools in Wonokromo village. This research uses cross sectional survey to see the level of Oral hygiene in children in the 6"’ year of elementary school. The parameter of this research is oral hygiene index. This research is analyzed by descriptive statistic method with SPSS 14. The result of this research showed that 1.0 as the lowest number of OHI-S, and the highest on 5.6. The average from all of the samples was 2.9 :1: 0.835 (moderate criteria). The good criteria of oral hygiene was found in boys, beside the moderate and low criteria was found in girls, the chi-square result showed that p = 0.835, that means there is no difference between boys and girls (p 0.05). The conclusion of the research that the children in 6th years of elementary school in the Wonokromo village are on the moderate criteria of oral hygiene (OHI-S) level]]>
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