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Baraille form buklets as learning media are printed media groups. This baraille form buklet is a quarto-sized book, no more than 30 sheets containing braille and little drawings written specifically for blind children. Especially this braille buklet is made in quarto size because a normal braille font needs to be in place. Blind people are children who have abnormalities in losing their visual acuity in such a way that their vision cannot be used to carry out daily activities, including school, so special education services are needed and have difficulty learning, communicating, and socializing and caring for themselves especially brushing their teeth blind children are prone to tooth decay and dental support networks. Blind children cleaning their teeth (OHIS status) are neglected because the surrounding environment including old people who are too busy do not pay attention. The buklet that contains ways to care for teeth, especially how to brush teeth, can be used as a guideline for treating teeth for children with visual impairments in SLB and the availability is very minimal, and there is none at all so that a teacher is still very wide open developed. Availability of braille buklets containing how to brush teeth in Bantul N 1 SLB and Yogyakarta City SLB as a medium as well as a guide for teachers or parents of blind children to guide good and correct brushing. Research methods to achieve goals namely Quasi Experiments or quasi experiments with fishbone diagram designs. Pre-Post Test with control design. The population in this study were blind children in Yogyakarta. The results of the examinations were recorded in OHIS format, then collected and analyzed using the T-test statistical test Using the parametric sample Paired Sample T-Test there were significant differences in the OHIS score after using the buklet p <0.05 so it can be stated that the buklet can affect dental hygiene (OHIS score) blind children in Yogyakarta