Abstract

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLETS

Manesh Kumar*, Devender Singh, Surabhi Rashi, Dilip Kumar Chanchal and
Saurabh Gupta

Abstract

Mouth dissolving drug delivery is rapidly gaining acceptance as an important new drug delivery technology. The aim the study was to prepare and characterize fast dissolving tablets (MDT). Orally disintegrating tablets provide an advantage particularly for paediatric and geriatric populations who have difficulty in swallowing conventional tablets and capsules. Literature on ODTs, their formulation and evaluation methods, patented technologies along with recent research in this area is reviewed in this article.

Keywords: Mouth dissolving tablets, formulation, evaluation.