Introduction: Dental and oral health is still a problem in Indonesia, especially in early childhood. Oral and dental health in early childhood needs special attention because they are in the process of growth and development that will affect the development of dental and oral health later. The purpose of this study is to find out the differences in 6-8 years old children’s behaviour towards oral and dental health in the urban and rural areas in Malang. Methods: This research used observational analytic with the cross-sectional approach. The determination of the sample is done by purposive sampling technique. There are 80 samples were divided into two groups; the students aged 6-8 years in urban and rural area. The differences in behaviour between the two groups were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test. Results: The results of the study of both groups have good oral dan dental health behaviours with an average score of knowledge 49.71 and the attitudes by 44.40 for urban area. While, in rural area the result pointed out 32.29 of knowlegde and 36.60 of attitude. Statistical test results of the differences in 6-8 years old children’s behaviour to-wards oral and dental health in both groups showed a value of p = 0.001. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there are differences in oral and dental health of children aged 6-8 years in urban and rural areas in Malang.