Good oral hygiene is most important for children, maintaining a good oral health will help you to prevent from dental problems like gums diseases, mouth ulcers etc... Fundamental purpose of dental education was to develop health professionals who will improve & maintain the oral health status of individuals and populations. Aim of study:To assess knowledge regarding dental status among the children from rural & urban areas and to associate knowledge on dental status with the demographic variables. Materials and Methods:A descriptive study was conducted on 200 samples, samples were selected from rural and urban areas for the research study. Samples were children who were aged 8-13 years, male and female, non-probability purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of children. The questionnaire consist of 47 items like sections were Demographic variables, and knowledge regarding dental status among children. Results: The findings of sample characteristics: Majority of samples were from age group between 8 to 10 years from selected Rural (54%) and Urban areas (45%),11 to 13 years in Rural (46%) Urban (55%), Male children from Rural area were 33% were as 58% from urban areas, female children from rural area were 67% whereas male 42% from Urban areas. Educational level of children was 3rd std Rural (18%) Urban (15%), 4th std - Rural (28%) Urban (15%), 5th std - Rural (20%) Urban (18 %), 6th std - Rural (27%) Urban (30%), 7th std -Rural (7%) Urban (32%). Majority of samples not had any dental problems i.e., from rural areas 10% had dental problems and 90% from Rural don't had any dental issues, and Urban areas 19% had dental problems where as 81% not had any dental issues. The findings of knowledge of dental status among children: 21% of children had poor, 73% had average, 6% had good knowledge on dental status from Rural areas and 23% of children had poor, 56% had average, 21% had good knowledge on dental status from Urban areas. Conclusion: The highest level of knowledge on dental status was among rural children i.e. 73% & urban children 56% was average knowledge. So, there was little difference among among children of both areas regarding knowledge of dental status.
