# RiskMatters - An interview with Dr Trudy Lin - Specialist in special needs, founder and principal of Extra Mile Dental

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Podcast: [Dental Protection Australia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dental-protection-australia-125802)
Published: 2025-06-01T18:15:08+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3962

## Resource

In this episode of RiskMatters, Dr Annalene Weston from Dental Protection speaks with Dr Trudy Lin. Trudy’s accolades are many and in this podcast, she shares her personal journey into general practice and later special needs dentistry, as well as providing some guiding principles for the inclusion of specials needs care, in general practice. In addition to her impressive dental career, Trudy is also a mindset coach so listen in as Annalene and Trudy discuss her ‘other passion’, which is engaging, insightful and relevant to us all, as practitioners and people. 3.27 - Special needs dentistry 4.48 - Risk management strategies when looking after patients who have specialist needs 7.15 - The relevance of renal conditions 8.54 - Role of GDPs in the management of patients with special needs 10.48 - Reaching out to special need specialists 12.48 - Specialists special training pathways 15.50 - Why Trudy became a specialist 16.50 - Impact of self limiting beliefs 20.30 - Mindset and leadership coaching 21.44 - What is a belief? 23.44 - How Trudy become a mindset coach 27.25 - Safe Failure 32.33 - Who benefits from having a mindset coach? 38.00 - (Self) perception 39.50 - Support and Ahpra's view 44.40 - Techniques - reframing 51.00 - Techniques - awesome and brain dumps 54.45 - Techniques - Self-care and wellness 56.15 - Loading 101.05 - How burnout fits in and saying no https://extramiledental.com.au/about/

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