Abstract

REVIEW ON MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLET

Gaurav C. Savpure*, Azam Z. Shaikh, Sandip A. Tadavi, and Sunil P. Pawar

ABSTRACT

Now day’s formulation research is breaking barriers of conventional methods. Recently, MDTs have take over an important position in the market by overcoming previously administration problems and contributing to extension of patient life, which have difficulty in swallowing tablets and capsules. Upon introduction into the mouth, these tablets dissolve/ disintegrate in the mouth without additional water for easy administration of pharmaceutical ingredients. Oral fast-dissolving tablets, are an examples of a few existing technologies with the potential to accommodate various physicochemical, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics characteristic of drugs. Fast dissolving tablets (FDTs) have received ever-increasing demand during the last decade, and the field has become a rapidly growing area in the pharmaceutical industry. This article reviews the Need, advantages, limitations, various formulation technologies [conventional], marketed product of Fast dissolving tablets.

Keywords: Mouth dissolving tablets, fast Dissolving Tablets, MDT’s, Direct compression, Superdisintegrants.