Strengths and Limitations
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To ensure adherence and an accurate increase in protein intake, nutritionists tailored their dietary advice to suit each participant’s personal eating behaviors and preferences. Moreover, throughout the study, participants provided the nutritionists with feedback on the feasibility of their protein-enriched diets, allowing the nutritionists to adjust their dietary advice accordingly. Indeed, the advice succeeded in increasing the average protein intake to 1.2 g/kg aBW/d. Even though the increase in protein intake may have been too moderate to influence oral health or the oral microbiota in a meaningful way, the intervention was in line with the increased recommended daily allowance for protein intake in older adults suggested by expert groups [