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This study sought to investigate the practices of prenatal dental care from the perspective of pregnant women in the city of Itacoatiara, Amazonas. An instrument composed of 14 objective questions was used, applied to 146 pregnant women, over 18 years of age, followed up in seven family health units in the city of Itacoatiara, Amazonas. The data were descriptively analyzed using absolute and relative frequencies, using the chi-squared test (p

Illustrated media has been a widely used device for oral health education, with comics being a format that is still under explored in terms of validation and analysis of their effectiveness towards the target audience. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a comic book in the process of oral health education to children between 6 and 12 years of age attended at the pediatric dentistry clinic of a dental polyclinic in the Brazilian Amazon. A playful-educational comic book was made, validated, and incorporated into a kit containing 01 toothbrush, 01 floss, and 01 toothpaste. Subsequently, a questionnaire was applied with the parents (N=50), before and after the delivery of the kits, which evaluated the child's oral hygiene care and the impressions on the impact of the comics on the oral hygiene of their children. The results were analyzed descriptively, through absolute frequencies and percentages using the McNemar test (p