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Background: Dental health- care facilities should adopt strict rules and strategies for dental waste management to minimize the risk of transmission of the disease from the dental clinic to the community. Indiscriminate disposal of biomedical waste constitutes a massive risk to the general public health, health care workers, and patients. Aim: This learningpurposes to evaluateinformation, attitude, and practice between dental practitioners of different dental health sectors in Tanta city, Egypt. A cross-sectional learningis showed in 200 working dentists in Tanta city.A self-organized close-ended questionnaire is utilized to acquire the essentialinformation. Results: The level of dental practitioners' awareness of BMW management policies ranged from 82.5% to 96%. Regarding BMW management practices, 90% of dental practitioners are cognizant of the removal of various items hooked ondissimilar color-coded bags. Dental practitioners of the private dental sector had the lowest correct responses (20%) regarding the disposal of used plastic items. Finally, 81.5% of dental practitioners settled to be systematicinstructive programs on biomedical waste management. Also, 80% of them recognized to obtainexercise in any procedure on BMW Conclusion: Based on The consequences of this learning, it can be determined that despite high awareness level of dental practitioners in Egypt about BMW management policies, proper disposal of contaminated plastic items, impression material, and soiled dressings was not yet accurately implemented by dental practitioners. Also, dental practitioners lacked knowledge regarding the correct practice of safe disposal of excess mercury and treating infectious waste beforedisposal.