Aim: One of the duties of health professionals is the guidance that will encourage the society to acquire the right health behaviors and keep away from wrong information and practices. Our aim in this study is to evaluate the attitudes and knowledge levels of the physician candidates who will serve the primary protection of health by raising the public awareness about oral and dental health, and some anatomical formations in the mouth area and their own oral and dental health. Material and Method: Our study is a cross-sectional study. It was held with 323 medical faculty students studying in the preclinical classes of İnönü University Faculty of Medicine in the 2020-2021 academic year and accepted to participate in the study. The students were given questionnaire forms consisting of 25 items and asked to fill them. Number and percentage distributions were used for descriptive statistics. Results: 50.2% of the students have dental decay. 31.6% has missing tooth. 9% of the students have never been to a dentist in their lives. While 38.4% of the students obtained information about oral and dental health from sources other than dentists, 25.4% of them consider having yellowed and decayed teeth as an aesthetic problem. 62.5% of them do not know the eruption time of the deciduous teeth, while the rate of those who do not know the eruption time of the permanent teeth is 44.3%. While 58.2% gave the wrong answer to the question about number of the decidual teeth are, 65.3% gave the wrong answer to the question about the first permanent tooth to come out. Conclusion: Our study results show that physician candidates do not have sufficient knowledge about oral and dental health. Underlying this negative picture lies the lack of a planning regarding oral and dental health in the medical school curriculum. However, we think that it is much more important to introduce a total preventive medicine understanding to physician candidates throughout their education life rather than adding a course to the curriculum in every subject.