Comparative assessment of AI-generated responses to frequently asked questions by parents on space maintainers in pediatric dentistry.

BMC Oral Health · 2026 · PMC12914885 · PMID 41582181

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

In terms of DISCERN scores, a highly significant difference was detected among the groups ( p < 0.001), and post-hoc Dunn testing indicated that Google Gemini 2.5 Flash differed significantly from ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-5, Deepseek-V3 and Grok 3.

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near-significantp = 0.057so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

These findings show that, although the difference in accuracy was not statistically significant, the near-significant value ( p = 0.057) may point to emerging performance distinctions among models.

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