The maintenance of dental health is related to people’s behavior. Behavior plays an essential role in high caries status in Indonesia. Tooth brushing habits, daily food consumption, and frequency of dental visits are dental health behaviors which could influence the caries status. Dental caries status is a condition that describes a person’s experience of dental caries measured by the index DMF-T. This study aims to determine the relationship between dental behavior or habit of maintaining the teeth and dental caries status of Pendul communities in Yogyakarta. This study was an observational analytic study with a cross-sectional design. The samples were members who were > 5 years old, with the number of 138 people using an accidental sampling technique. Data were collected by conducting teeth examination and questionnaire of dental behavior. The data were then analyzed using the Spearman correlation test. The result showed that there was a significant correlation between dental health behavior and caries status (p = 0.044) with a correlation coefficient -0,172 and the average score of DMF-T 7,9. There was a significant correlation between dental health behavior and dental caries status of Pendul communities in Yogyakart