Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Review on Mouth Dissolving Tablet

Dept of Pharmacy, GRD [PG] Institute of Management and Technology, 214, Rajpur, Dehradun-248009, Uttarakhand, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: ngraghu@rediffmail.com, drngraghu@gmail.com

Online published on 15 March, 2019.

Abstract

Mouth dissolving tablets are solid dosage forms which break down in the oral cavity less than one minute without using of water. These dosage forms are placed in the mouth, allowable to diffuse or melt in the saliva. The purpose of this article is to review potential advancements of Oro Dispersible Tablet technology in drug delivery applications. Different techniques employed to prepare Oro Dispersible Tablets include direct compression method, freeze drying, spray drying, tablet moulding, sublimation and mass extrusion. The current research formulation is intended to disintegrate fast in the mouth to provide dispersion before being swallowed. The research work is still going on more products need to be commercialized to use this technology properly. Thus Oro Dispersible Tablet may be designed for most of the available drugs in future.

Keywords

Mouth dissolving tablet, Superdisintegrating agents, freeze drying, spray drying, tablet moulding, sublimation