Reliance on education and faith in its outcome have often been translated into teaching people how they must behave if they are to prevent illness or its untoward consequences. While society may provide many safe guards and services for dental health, in the final analysis it is the acquired knowledge and motivation of the individual towards good dental health habit formation that makes the critical difference. So attempt is made to understand and present a comprehensive details of how dental health education can offer a substance to this ever changing world in improving oral health of individual and community at large.