
Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 42(S16), S187–S201. Efficacy of patient-administered mechanical and/or chemical plaque control protocols in the management of peri-implant mucositis. When looking up Volume 42, Supplement 16 in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, the actual citation on pages S187-S201 was: Step 4: The librarian once again fact-checked the answer. Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 42(Suppl 16), S187-S201.

Challenging the efficacy of periodontal surgery. Sanz, M., Herrera, D., & Kebschull, M.Step 3: The librarian told ChatGPT that the citation it provided doesn't exist, ChatGPT then gave the "correct" citation for the article as: The DOI links to a different article, "Human intrabony defect regeneration with rhFGF-2 and hyaluronic acid – A randomized controlled clinical trial".Volume 42, Issue 6 of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology has the article, "Variables affecting tooth survival and changes in probing depth: a long-term follow-up of periodontitis patients" on pages 513-516.The article titled "Challenging the efficacy of periodontal surgery" does not exist.2015 is accurate, in terms of the journal, volume, issue, and page #'s.International journal of interdisciplinary dentistry 15(SPC), 115-119. Actualización de las revisiones sistemáticas. Sanz, M., Herrera, D., & Kebschull, M authored a different article together: D Herrera, M Kebschull, M Sanz (2022).Step 2: A librarian fact-checked the provided citation. Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 42(6), 513-516.

Step 1: ChatGPT was given the prompt, "Can you give me 10 journal articles on treatments for periodontitis in the style of the APA 7th edition citation format?" The first article provided by ChatGPT was:
