Abstract

FAST DISSOLVING ORAL FILM FOR FAST DISSOLVING DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM

Akashkumar Nareshkumar Shah*, Anil Raval, Dr. Yogesh K. Patel and Vijay K. Patel

ABSTRACT

Buccal drug delivery has lately become an important route of drug administration. But many of the patients (pediatric and geriatric) are unwilling to take solid preparations due to fear of choking. This has made the pharmaceutical industry look for alternative routes of drug delivery like film drug delivery. Fast dissolving oral drug delivery systems have started gaining popularity and acceptance as new drug delivery systems, because they are easy to administer, better patient compliance, rapid drug absorption and sudden -onset of drug action with instant bioavailability is possible. So, now-a-days, most of the pharmaceutical companies adopted various technologies to manufacture fast dissolving oral films in large scale despite of several limitations as an al tentative to traditional over -the-counter medicine forms such as tablets, capsules etc. This review reflects information regarding formulation ingredients, technologies and evaluation tests employed in the preparation of fast dissolving oral films.

Keywords: Fast dissolving film, Fast drug delivery system, Mouth dissolving film.