Oral disintegrating tablets. a new, modern, solid dosage form
Popa, G.ţi.; Gafiţanu, E.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 107(2): 337-342
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 14755937 Document Number: 558684
The pharmaceutical market shows lately an increasing interest in orally disintegrating tablets, due to their good acceptability among certain age categories (ex. elderly, children), and other patients with difficulties in swallowing classic solid dosage forms. Some of the methods of preparing such tablets have gained industrial applicability: molding, lyophilization, direct compression with highly soluble excipients, super disintegrants and/or effervescent systems. Some of the patients have had a good impact on the pharmaceutical market and more improvements are expected in the next few years, with new drugs to be formulated as fast dissolving dosage formulations.