Five years after completion of school dental care programs in Richmond, Ind., and Woonsocket, R.I., participants and non participants in the clinic programs in both communities were examined. Proportionately less dental care was obtained during the 5 years immediately following the termination of the projects by those children who had participated in the programs than had been obtained during the project itself. The data also show that participants and nonparticipants alike sought and received considerably more dental care during the 5 years after cessation of the projects than had children of the same age during the 5 years preceding the clinic programs. While no cause-and-effect relationship can be demonstrated between the continuing availability of care and of concentrated dental health status and dental behavior, comparisons of these data with other available long-term evaluations of dental health suggest that the habit patterns established during the Richmond and Woonsocket clinic programs did carry over to a considerable degree into the succeeding 5 years.