During the COVID-19 pandemic, dental health maintenance activities were slightly hampered because there were rules for maintaining social distance or social distancing to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. Maintenance Oral health of children and adolescents is very important. Oral health is very important for building the immune system, especially during the COVID-19 period. The high prevalence of dental and oral diseases can be caused by many factors, one of which is the inconsistent behavior of dental and oral health maintenance. The Riskesdas results 2018, stated that the number of dental and oral problems in Indonesia reached 57.6% and the number of children experiencing dental and oral problems reached 93%. Aim: To find out the behavior of maintaining dental and oral health in adolescents aged 12-15 years during COVID-19 at the Pondok Pesantren MTS Ma'ahid Kudus. Methods: This type of research is descriptive observational using a cross sectional approach. The sampling technique in this study used a probability sampling technique, namely the proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The number of samples in this study amounted to 80 people. Result: The behavior of maintaining dental and oral health of adolescents aged 12-15 years mostly has behavior in the good category as many as 44 people (55.0) and moderate behavior as many as 30 people (37.5) and 6 people (7.5) less behavior. Adolescent students have a good level of behavior in maintaining oral and dental health during the COVID-19 period, namely 44 people (55.0%).
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