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Objective. To determinate if the application of educational sessions about oral health based on multiple Intelligences approach will improve the oral hygiene practices in schoolchildren of two educational institutions from Chiclayo, Peru. Materials and methods. A community intervention study was made with quasiexperimental design oriented to assess the oral hygiene practices of 87 schoolchildren from Santa Julia and San Jose educational Institutions, evaluating them before and after applying the oral health education sessions, 42 of them participated in sessions focused on multiple intelligences approach and approximately 45 assisted to traditional sessions. Results. The educational sessions that used multiple intelligences approach contributed with17 students of both schools to increase their oral hygiene practices and 15 to improve their oral hygiene indicator, while traditional model only improved 4 and 3 students oral hygiene respectively, determining significance difference with the Mc Nemar test (p < 0.001). Conclusions. With the educational session model focused on multiple intelligences approach, better and more oral hygiene practices in schoolchildren were reached than using traditional oral health sessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]