PERANAN PENGASUH TERHADAP PERILAKU MENYIKAT GIGI PADA ANAK-ANAK DI PANTI ASUHAN HAMDAN SENDANGMULYO

The age of child need the parent guidance in keeping the cleanliness of their tooth and mouth healthy. The role of the advisor is needed to give the children definition, to remind, and to prepare the facility so that the children would apply how to brushing the tooth well. The purpose of this research is to know the role of the advisor toward the children tooth brushing behavior in Hamdan Orphanage.This research is quantitative descriptive research with the cross-sectional design. The writer uses 5 advisor and 22 orphan children from Hamdan Orphanage as the samples which is taken by purposive sampling. He uses questionnaire and checklist sheet to get the data that displayed in the frequent distribution table.The result shows that the role of the advisor toward the children tooth brushing behavior in Hamdan Orphanage Sendangmulyo is in the average criteria (100%). While, the children behavior tends to average range (68.18%). The advisor would better to increase their role to advice the children tooth brushing behavior and more get attention toward the children in keeping the mouth and tooth cleanliness, but tooth brushing