Poor oral health in children has been identified as one of the prevailing school health problem in developing countries. Occurrence of oral health diseases may prevent the school child from benefiting from various educational activities provided in the school. This is because among other problems, low oral health status may result to low school attendance and low self esteem, leading to poor school performance. It is in consideration of this enormity that it becomes imperative to the researcher to conduct a cross-sectional survey research aimed at ascertaining the perception of primary school teachers on the influence of location on the extent of Provision of School – Based Oral Health Promotion (SBOHP).One purpose of study and one hypothesis guided the study.  Population was 12,783 and sample was 640 teachers which were drawn using multi-stage sampling procedure. School – Based Oral Health Promotion Questionnaire (SBOHPQ) developed by the researcher was the instrument for data collection. Validity of the instrument was established through the judgment of three experts in Health Education and the reliability index value yielded 0.82, using Cronbach Alpha statistic. Data were analyzed using Z test statistic for the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that location influenced the extent of provision of SBOHP in public primary schools in Enugu State. Based on the foregoing, a number of recommendations were put forward which included that oral health education and promotion services should be provided in schools at both rural and urban settings.

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