This seminar course is the second in a series of four such seminars that discuss essential aspects of clinical pediatric dentistry, with emphasis on the scientific evidence supporting contemporary practice. These four consecutive seminar courses over four semesters (two academic years) provide the pediatric dentistry graduate student with a conceptual basis for caring for the oral health of children. This second seminar in the series consists of sixteen two- hour sessions (32 hours) and addresses: pulpal therapy, management of the arch circumference of the developing child, clinical management of the child with cleft lip/cleft palate, speech pathology, burns affecting the oral cavity, the use of antimicrobials, and medical compromising conditions affecting oral health care.