ABSTRACT
Dental and oral health needs to be considered as an integral part of overall health that requires
immediate treatment before it is too late and can affect a person's health condition. Primary school-aged
children need to get more attention because they are prone to dental and oral health problems. Based
on the results of crawl found the average value of index debris is 1.9 with bad criteria of all students in
grade V SDN Meteseh. The purpose of this research is to know the difference of index debris value
before and after given counseling using puzzle method with lecture method.
The type of this research is the analytical method used is Quasy Experiment, pre and post test
with group control design. The total number of samples as much as 78 respondents. Technique of
collecting data with total sampeling technique and statistic test using test of wilcoxon and mann
whitney which used to know difference from result of the research.
The results of this research indicate that the difference of counseling using puzzle method is ρ=
0,002 (p<0,05) while with lecture method is ρ= 0,013 (p>0,05). The conclusion of this research is the
difference of debris value of index which is very meaningful in the puzzle play method with the lecture
method to the index debris on the students of class V in SDN Meteseh.