Abstract
An oral health behavior and caries occurrence survey had been performed in 663 children of the 12 years old in Palembang and would be compared to the Dutch children. The subjects were selected in a
stratified random sampling for the cross sectional design. The results revealed that the knowledge, attitude and behavior of oral health of the children in Palembang were lower. Dental fear between the two groups showed a significant factor with dental caries occurence. However, among the children in Palembang showed that the group without caries had no dental fear twice higher than the group with dental caries. (p<0.05. OR: 0.56. Cl 0.38:0.79).
