Pembangunan kesehatan masyarakat Indonesia dilakukan dalam keseluruhan proses kehidupan mulai dalam kandungan sampai usia lanjut. Indonesia sebagai negara berkembang, walaupun sedang dilanda krisis di segala bidang, sudah sepantasnya tetap mempertahankan generasi penerus agar tetap sehat dan handal. Kesehatan gigi, sebagai bagian integral dari kesehatan manusia seutuhnya juga berperan dalam meningkatkan kualitas dan produktivitas sumber daya manusia. Kesehatan gigi memang bukan masalah utama, namun apabila gigi anak mengalami kerusakan, sudah pasti anak mengalami gangguan 'intake' makanan. Kunjungan anak sedini mungkin ke klinik gigi puskesmas merupakan salah satu contoh perilaku orang tua yang memperhatikan masalah kesehatan gigi dan mulut, dalam hal ini posisi seorang ibu sangat menentukan perilaku pencarian pengobatan untuk anaknya. Departemen kesehatan RI mentargetkan kunjungan anak balita dan prasekolah ke klinik gigi puskesmas adalah 50 % dari kunjungan anak balita dan prasekolah ke klinik KIA puskesmas. Berdasarkan data yang ada, dari 20 puskesmas di wilayah Kota Pontianak pada tahun 1999, baru 5 puskesmas yang mencapai target tersebut, selebihnya sebanyak 15 puskesmas masih jauh dari pencapaian target tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor apa saja yang berhubungan dengan kunjungan anak balita dan pra-sekolah ke klinik gigi puskesmas di Kota Pontianak. Menurut teori Green, faktor-faktor yang merupakan penyebab perilaku dibedakan dalam tiga jenis yaitu faktor predisposisi, faktor pemungkin (enabling) dan faktor penguat (reinforcing). Dalam penelitian ini, faktor predisposisi yang ingin dilihat adalah keadaan sosiodemografi ibu, yaitu umur, pendidikan, pekerjaan, pengalaman ibu berobat gigi, sikap dan pengetahuan ibu terhadap kesehatan gigi dan mulut anaknya. Faktor pemungkin adalah persepsi ibu terhadap jarak menuju puskesmas, sedangkan penyuluhan kesehatan gigi yang pernah diterima ibu adalah faktor penguat. Metode penelitian ini adalah cross-sectional, dengan jumlah responden 165 yang berasal dari 4 wilayah puskesmas di Kota Pontianak. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pekerjaan ibu merupakan satu-satunya faktor yang mempunyai hubungan dengan kunjungan anak balita dan pra-sekolah ke klinik gigi puskesmas di Kota Pontianak. Hampir semua (90,1%) responden belum pernah menerima penyuluhan tentang kesehatan gigi dan mulut. Oleh karena hanya pekerjaan ibu yang mempunyai hubungan bermakna dengan kunjungan anak balita dan pra-sekolah ke klinik gigi puskesmas, maka disarankan agar pendidikan kesehatan gigi dan mulut diberikan melalui kegiatan posyandu, arisan dan kegiatan pengajian pada ibu-ibu yang tidak bekerja, di samping kepada anak balita/pra-sekolahnya sendiri melalui kegiatan upaya kesehatan gigi sekolah di Taman Kanak-kanak. Untuk meningkatkan kunjungan ke klinik gigi puskesmas, koordinasi antara klinik gigi dan klinik KIA di puskesmas dalam penanganan pasien anak balita dan pra-sekolah perlu ditingkatkan. Selain itu saran yang menunjang pelayanan kesehatan gigi dan mulut di puskesmas perlu ditingkatkan, di samping perlu adanya supervisi dan bimbingan teknis secara rutin. Untuk meningkatkan cakupan kunjungan anak balita dan pra-sekolah ke klinik gigi puskesmas di Kota Pontianak, perlu diberikan pendidikan kesehatan gigi bagi kader posyandu, sehingga mereka dapat mempromosikannya pada ibu-ibu balita pengunjung posyandu yang rata-rata tidak bekerja.

The Factors that Regarding With Under Five and Pre-School Children Visited to Dental Clinic of Public Health Centers at Pontianak City at the year 2000The development of Indonesian community healthy is doing to the whole process of live starting from the pregnancy until the continued ages. Indonesia as development country, even having in every circumstances, is ought to defend the future generation to stay health and reliable. Dental health, as an integral part from the totality human health too that have part to increase the quality and productivity of human sources. The dental health is not an important problem after all, but if the children teeth have damaging, the children surely have the food intake disturbance. The children visited as soon as possible to the dental clinic of the public health center is represent one sample of parent behavior that concerning the teeth and mouth health problem, in this problem a mother position is very decided to the kind of way for their children medication. The Ministry of Health of Indonesia targeting the visiting of under five and pre-school children to the dental clinic of the public health center is 50% from the visiting of under five and pre-school children to the mother and child health clinic of public health center. Based on the data that exist, from 20 public health centers at Pontianak city area at the year 1999, only 5 public health centers reached that target. This research purpose to know any factors that related with the under five and pre-school children visited to the dental clinic of public health center of Pontianak city. According to the Green theory, the factor of the behavior cause is classified to three kinds of factors that is predisposing factor, enabling factor and reinforcing factor. In this research, predisposing factor that wanted to see is the condition of mother sosiodemograph, that is age, education, profession, mother experience having teeth medication, attitude and mother knowledge about teeth and mouth health of their children. The enabling factor is mother perception about the distance to the public health center, and information about dental health that mother ever accepts is the reinforcing factor. The method of this research is cross sectional, with totally 165 respondents that came from 4 different area of public health center at Pontianak city. Almost all (90, 1%) respondent never accept information about teeth and mouth healthy. There for the mother profession that had an important relation with the visited of children under five and pre-school children to the dental clinic of the public health center, so it suggested the information about the teeth and mouth health is giving by the activity of Posyandu, a saving club and the religious recitation activity on not working mother, beside that to the children under five and pre-school children having the dental health activity at the kindergarten. To increase the visiting to the dental clinic of public health center, the coordination between the dental clinic and mother and child clinic at the public health center in handling children under five children patient and pre-school children needed to increase. Besides that the material that supporting the dental health service at the public health service needed to be increase, beside needed the realization of the supervision and the technical guide intensifies. To increase snatch of the under five and pre-school children visiting to the dental health clinic of the public health center at Pontianak city, needed to give the teeth healthy training to the Posyandu cadre, so they can promoted to the baby under five mothers that equally not working.