Introduction: Dental and oral health is one of the factors that can be determine a person’s quality of life. Based on Riskesdas, DMF-T index in elementary school students in Malang City is high. Dental and oral health in children play a role in speech development, which is important for communication and socializing. Thus, it is important for every parent to know dental and oral condition of their child to determine the dental need. Objective of this prelim- inary study is to record parent’s assessment of dental care needs, it can be used to determine dental and oral health community campaign or individual intervention at SDN Pandanwangi 1. Method: Respondents were 105 parents of grade 2 students at SDN Pandanwangi 1. The questionnaire consisted of two components. The first is a test to see their basic knowledge about dental health in children. Consists of 10 questions and given a score of 0-100. Then they were asked to check the condition of their child’s teeth and fill it into second questionnaire to see their assessment of dental and oral health status and dental need in their child. Results: The results for parental knowledge majority are fair, with range 50-70. Meanwhile, the results of the assessment were fairly low result. The Spearman test result is 0.077, so there is no significant correlation between the level of knowledge and the results of assessment. Conclu- sion: It shows that student’s parents are still need counseling on how to check and assess decayed teeth, also about the importance of early treatment caries.