Abstrak Tingginya prevalensi penyakit gigi dan mulut disebabkan oleh berbagai faktor, antara lain:  pengetahuan, sikap dan perilaku dalam memelihara kesehatan gigi yang masih rendah. Hasil survey yang dilakukan pada mahasiswa baru jurusan Keperawatan Gigi, diperoleh sebanyak 30 orang memiliki penyakit gingivitis. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui hubungan pengetahuan dengan perilaku kesehatan gigi dan mulut mahasiswa DIII tingkat 1 jurusan Keperawatan Poltekkes Kemenkes Tasikmlaya tahun akademik 2019/2020. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif analitik. Untuk pengujian hipotesis digunakan uji korelasi product moment untuk melihat hubungan antara variabel bebas dan terikat. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh mahasiswa tingkat I Diploma III Jurusan Keperawatan Poltekkes Kemenkes Tasikmalaya Tahun Akademik 2019/2020 berjumlah 79 orang. Instrumen penelitian terdiri dari angket pengetahuan dan perilaku yang dibuat dalam google form. Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan tingkat pengetahuan tentang kesehatan gigi mayoritas baik sebanyak 38 orang (51%), cukup 36 orang (49%) dan tidak ada yang termasuk kategori kurang (0). Perilaku mahasiswa tentang kesehatan gigi dan mulut mayoritas baik sebanyak 68 orang (92%), cukup 6 orang (8%) dan tidak ada yang termasuk perilaku kurang, nilai signifikansi 0,038 < 0,05 dengan demikian dapat simpulkan terdapat hubungan pengetahuan dengan perilaku  kesehatan gigi dan mulut. Kata kunci: pengetahuan, perilaku kesehatan gigi dan mulut Abstract The high prevalence of oral and dental diseases is caused by various factors: knowledge, attitudes and behavior in maintaining dental health which are still low. The survey conducted on new students majoring in dental nursing showed that 30 people had gingivitis. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge and oral health behavior in DIII level 1 nursing students majoring in the Health Polytechnic of the Ministry of Health, Tasikmlaya in the 2019/2020 academic year. This type of research used descriptive analytic. To test the hypothesis, the product moment correlation test is used to see the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The subjects in this study were all students of level I Diploma III Nursing Department of the Health Polytechnic of the Ministry of Health, Tasikmalaya, Academic Year 2019/2020, totaling 79 people. The research instrument consisted of a knowledge and behavior questionnaire made on by google form. The results of this study showed that the level of knowledge about dental health, the majority were good as many as 38 people (51%), 36 people in sufficient category (49%) and none were in the poor category (0). The majority in oral health were in the good category 68 people (92%), sufficient category 6 people (8%) and noone was in lacking behavior. The significance value is obtained 0.038 < 0.05, so there is a relationship between knowledge and oral health behavior. Keywords:               knowledge, oral health behavior

Latar belakang: Lansia merupakan tahap akhir siklus kehidupan manusia. Perubahan yang terjadi pada lansia yaitu perubahan fisik, sosial dan psikologis. Perubahan fisiologis rongga mulut pada lansia salah satunya adalah kasus kehilangan gigi. lansia rata-rata memiliki gigi yang tersisa dalam rongga mulutnya sebanyak 9-12 gigi. Sedangkan standar WHO menetapkan lansia umur ?65 tahun memiliki minimal 20 buah gigi berfungsi. Penyebab utama kehilangan gigi pada lansia adalah karies dan penyakit periodotal. Penyakit periodontal secara sederhana dibagi atas gingivitis dan periodontitis. Data kasus periodontitis diperoleh pada usia 45-59 tahun sebanyak 47,31% (44 orang), usia 60-74 tahun sebanyak 47,6% (47 orang) dan pada usia 75-90 tahun keatas sebanyak 2,15% (2 orang). Tujuan penelitian: Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan usia dan jenis kelamin dengan kejadian periodontitis pada lansia. Metode: menggunakan penelitian dengan rancangan Cross sectional. Populasi adalah lansia yang berkunjung ke BPG UPT Puskesmas Pabuaran Tumpeng dengan sampel nonprobability sampling sebanyak 79 orang. Data dianalisis menggunakan uji analisis Rank Spearman. Hasil penelitian: menunjukkan jumlah responden terbanyak (54,4%) berusia 60-74 tahun dengan jenis kelamin laki-laki lebih besar (57%) daripada perempuan (43%). Lansia yang mengalami poket dalam > 6mm sebanyak 64,6%. Hasil analisis menunjukkan adanya hubungan yang kuat antara usia dan jenis kelamin dengan terjadinya periodontitis pada lansia yang berkunjung ke BPG UPT Puskesmas Pabuaran Tumpeng Kota Tangerang dengan nilai signifikansi 0,000. Kesimpulan: Ada hubungan kuat antara usia dan jenis kelamin dengan terjadinya periodontitis pada lansia yang berkunjung ke Balai Pengobatan Gigi (BPG) UPT Puskesmas Pabuaran Tumpeng Kota Tangerang. Semakin usia bertambah semakin parah kondisi periodontal.

Backgroud: Preschool-age children are an age group that is prone to dental and oral diseases, especially caries, in improving the degree of dental and oral health, one of which is the need to maintain dental and oral hygiene from an early age. Efforts to improve the dental and oral health of preschool-aged children are with efforts to promote, preventative and curatively simply. Promotive efforts can be done with dental health education with Purpose: This study aims to determine the influence of dental health education using dance and song media on the knowledge of preschoolers in RA Darussalam Tasikmalaya City. Method: This study used a quasi-experimental method (quasi-experimental, with a one-group pretest and posttest research design). Result: statistical tests using Wilcoxon obtained a significance value of 0.000 <0.000 indicating that there was significant knowledge of dental health education using dance and songs. Conclusion: there is an influence of dental health education using dance and song media on the knowledge of preschool children at RA Darussalam, Tasikmalaya City.

Title in english. One of the groups prone to dental and oral diseases is pregnant women, pregnancy is a physiological process that causes changes in the female body both psychically and physiologically such as gums / gingiva caused by an increase in female sex hormones, namely extrogen and progesterone hormones, these events cause an increase in vascularity and changes in the walls of the gingival blood vessels, so that they become more permeable and can strengthen the inflammatory process. Some studies state that the effect of hormonal changes will affect the dental and oral health of pregnant women by 30-100% Dental and oral diseases that are commonly encountered by pregnant women are gingivitis and periodontitis. The Indonesian government's efforts in overcoming dental and oral health problems in pregnant women are through health promotion. Purpose: Knowing the influence of dental and oral health counseling using flipchart media on gingivitis knowledge in pregnant women in Pamanukan Sebrang Village, Pamanukan District, Subang Regency. Method: The type of research used in this study is quasi-experimental design with a research design One group pretest posttest design. The sample size in the study was 40 respondents taken by Total Sampling. The analysis used is the paired T-test. Result: There is an influence of dental and oral health counseling through flipchart media on gingivitis knowledge in pregnant women in Pamanukan Sebrang Village, Pamanukan District, Subang Regency, as evidenced by the P-value (< 0.05). Conclusion : The use of flipchart media in health education regarding gingivitis during pregnancy is effective in increasing the knowledge of pregnant women.

Background: Based on Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) data in 2018 the prevalence of caries in Indonesia was 88.8% and according to riskesdas data for West Java province reached 45.6% Health promotion is a process of empowering or empowering the community to be able to maintain, improve, and protect his health. The health promotion effort is one form of learning. Busy book is an interactive learning media. Contains simple game activities that can stimulate children's fine motor skills. Objective: busy book on knowledge of dental and oral health maintenance in grade 2 children at SDN Singkup Tasikmalaya City. Methods: The type of research carried out was the Wilcoxon in 2nd grade children of SDN Singkup as many as 21 people. The measuring instrument in this study used a dental health questionnaire. Results: the criteria for children's knowledge after counseling using busy book were as follows: good criteria 8 students (38.1%) and sufficient criteria for 13 students (61.9%) and no criteria lacking (0%). Conclusion: media busy book on knowledge of dental and oral health maintenance in grade 2 children at SDN Singkup Tasikmalaya City.