["Data for action" from the viewpoint of the Regional Dental Board and the Regional Professional Group for Dental Health].

Lecture by the President of the Landeszahnärztekammer (Regional Chamber of Dental Surgeons) Baden Wuerttemberg and Chairman of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Zahngesundheit (Regional Task Force for Dental Health) on the occasion of the 50th scientific convention "Healthy into the Future" of the Federal Association of Doctors and Dentists in the Public Health Sector. This lecture by Dr. Rüdiger Engel highlights the planned goals of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Zahngesundheit (Regional Task Force for Dental Health) as well as those of the 37 associated Regional Task Forces for Dental Health up to year 2003.