<![CDATA[Introduction: In field of Pediatric Medicine, Children with Special Needs are children who experience difficulties in behavior, physical abilities, or intellectual capabilities. Deaf children need appropriate language to communicate so they can convey and understand messages in daily life. Use phantom teeth media and animated sign language videos for deaf children is a consistent method for implementing education for hearing-impaired children. Methods: This research is a quasi-experimental study with pre and post-test group. The sample in this study consisted of 24 deaf students at SLB-B Pertiwi Ponorogo, divided into 2 groups, each consisting of 12 students. The debris index score was examined using the debris index. Results: The debris index results after education showed that the dental phantom media was more effective compared to the animated video, with 11 deaf children in the dental phantom group reaching the good debris index category, while only 5 children in the animated video group did. Based on the difference in pre-test and post-test scores, which is 1.99 for the phantom tooth group and 1.29 for the animation video group. Conclusion: The dental phantom media is more effective than the animated video in educating tooth brushing for deaf children, as evidenced by the greater reduction in the debris index using the dental phantom media.]]>
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