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March 25, 2020

Periodontal Disease and Sleep Disordered Breathing – Episode 26: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

This week on Get a Gasp Gina Pepitone-Mattiello continues to cover clinical perils and provides some information about periodontal disease and sleep disordered breathing. Get a Gasp will take a break for season 3 of The Dental Podcast Network. If you have questions for Gina please contact her via … [Read more...] about Periodontal Disease and Sleep Disordered Breathing – Episode 26: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

March 18, 2020

This week on Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello Gina continues her series on what you can look for with your patients to screen for airway/sleep issues and how to talk with your patients about your screening. Episode Highlights Height/Weight/BMI Neck Measuring/Adjusted Neck … [Read more...] about Screening for Airway and Sleep Disorders – Episode 25: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

March 11, 2020

This week on Get a Gasp Gina Pepitone-Mattiello continues her series of clinical perils. Gina covers several factors you can look for when seeing your patients to signify potential airway and sleep breathing issues. Highlights What to look for in patients Risk Factors Head … [Read more...] about Airway and Sleep Breathing Issues and how to screen for them – Episode 24: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

March 4, 2020

This week on Get a Gasp, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello talks to us about screening for obstructive sleep apnea, highlighting some questionnaires and tests she finds valuable. Episode Highlights Should all hygienist’s be screening patients Ginas daily screening routine … [Read more...] about Obstructive Sleep Apnea – Episode 23: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

February 26, 2020

On today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello continues to address the role of a Dental Hygienists. Gina talks about an article written by Michelle Strange, RDH that coincides with the topic of the role of the hygienist and expands upon sleep statistics and the impact on … [Read more...] about Sleep Statistics and Dentistry – Episode 22: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone- Mattiello

February 5, 2020

On today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello begins her 3 part series with Gary Kadi CEO of Next Level Practice about the turning point in careers to take you from shygenist to hygienius. Episode Highlights: Gary’s career background … [Read more...] about Shygenists to Hygienius with Gary Kadi – Episode 19: Get A Gasp with Gina Pepitone Mattiello

January 22, 2020

Gina Pepitone-Mattiello’s guest on today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast is her good friend, Cathy DiStefano, dental hygienist and myofunctional therapist, who shares discusses the effects of tongue-ties, and the impact that myofunctional therapy can have upon a patient’s airway and … [Read more...] about Tongue Ties and Myofunctional Therapy with Cathy DiStefano, RDH – Episode 17: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

January 15, 2020

Gina Pepitone-Mattiello continues her month long series on different therapies to treat sleep breathing disorders in today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast, by looking at positional therapy as well as the use of one of the oldest known wind instruments, the didgeridoo. Episode … [Read more...] about Sleep Breathing Disorders and the Didgeridoo – Episode 16: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

December 25, 2019

In today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello discusses a topic about which she is very excited - the diagnosis of sleep apnea. Episode Highlights: The types of physicians most involved with sleep medicine The types of sleep tests/studies that … [Read more...] about Diagnosing Sleep Apnea – Episode 13: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello

December 18, 2019

In today’s episode of the “Get a Gasp” podcast, Gina Pepitone-Mattiello takes an in-depth look at obstructive sleep apnea. Episode Highlights: How Gina describes obstructive sleep apnea to her patients The 3 types of apnea Definitions of apnea-related terms … [Read more...] about Obstructive Sleep Apnea – Episode 12: Get a Gasp with Gina Pepitone-Mattiello