[Oral disintegrating tablets. A new, modern, solid dosage form]

Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi. 2003 Apr-Jun;107(2):337-42.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Solubility
  • Tablets / chemistry*

Substances

  • Tablets