Abstract

FAST DISSOLVING TABLETS “AN OPPORTUNITY IN NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM”

Singh Vishwarath Pratap*, Kamboj Meenakshi, Shukla Vikesh Kumar, Singh Ravindra Pal and Dimple Singh Tomar

Abstract

The requirement for delivering drugs to patients efficiently with very less side effects has prompted pharmaceutical industries to be engaged in development of new drug delivery systems. Fast disintegrating tablets (FDTs) have received ever-increasing demand during the last era, and the field has become a rapidly growing area in the pharmaceutical world because they are easy to administer and provide the better patient compliance. FDTs are solid unit dosage forms, which disintegrate or dissolve rapidly in the mouth without chewing and swallowing with water. FDTs or orally disintegrating tablets provide a great advantage particularly for geriatric and paediatric populations who have difficulty in swallowing conventional tablets and other solid dosage form because of tremors of extremities and dysphasia & under developed muscular and nervous systems. Other groups also may experience problems in administration of conventional oral dosage forms include the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, and patients who are not cooperative, on reduced liquid-intake plans, or are nauseated.

Keywords: Fast dissolving tablets, Lyophilisation, Zydis technology.