SUMMARY Aim of the study. To analyze how odontological help is provided to children in Kaunas City. Objectives. 1. To describe the volume, legal basis of odontological assistance for children. 2. To compare odontological assistance rendered to children in private and primary health care centres. 3. To forecast the opportunities of odontological assistance organization in the future. Methods. The investigated persons consist of Kaunas C. children of 1 – 18, children parents and heads of odontological institutions. A child is considered to be a statistic observance unit. The employed epidemiological investigation method is written interrogation: 200 questionnaires for children parents (168 questionnaires were returned) and 30 questionnaires for the heads of odontological institutions (7 questionnaires were replied by public, 23 – private teeth treatment institutions heads). The data of the questionnaire have been statistically evaluated by using SPSS 12 statistical program package. Results. More than half (51 percent) of parents take their children to private teeth treatment institutions. 30 per cent of children are treated in Public Institution Odontological Departments. In the school rooms 2 per cent of children are treated. The parent choice to take children to private odontological clinic has been determined by service quality (58.8 percent), doctor competence (49.4 percent) and variety of services (21.2 percent). The public teeth treatment institutions are chosen because... [to full text]