Who we are

Airway-first care, built around your whole care team

Primal Air was founded by Shirley Gutkowski, RDH — clinician, author and educator — to bring orofacial myofunctional therapy into everyday family healthcare.

Crooked teeth, restless sleep, chronic congestion and jaw pain are rarely isolated problems. They are usually downstream of how a person breathes and how the tongue rests in the mouth. We treat that upstream cause.

Every patient begins with a comprehensive assessment: tongue mobility and posture, lip seal, nasal patency, swallowing pattern, sleep history and habit inventory. From there we build a daily exercise plan that takes minutes, not hours, and we coach it until it becomes automatic.

We work alongside dentists, orthodontists, ENTs, myofunctional-friendly bodyworkers and sleep physicians. Notes and progress are shared through our practitioner portal so nothing falls between offices — a habit that started with our own three locations and now extends to referring providers.

“When the airway works, the face, the sleep and the mood follow.”

An adult practicing slow nasal breathing during a session

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Clinic locations across WI and NY

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Combined years of clinical hygiene and airway practice

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Unified record — every note, message and milestone in one place