Background: Motivational Interviewing can be used as a brief intervention to boost incentive for patients to modify their dental hygiene habits, as well as a framework for delivering nutrition, smoking cessation, oral health modifications, and alcohol recommendations. The Chair Side Talk approach is a pre- or post-treatment extension activity performed by the instructor while the patient is being treated.The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of extending oral health information as well as motivation using the chairside talk method