A REVIEW: MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLET

The demand for Mouth Dissolving Tablet has been increasing for the last decade particularly in geriatric, peadiatric and patient with some sort of disabilities in swallowing. Mouth dissolving tablets are those tablets which when placed in mouth get dissolved rapidly in saliva without the need of liquid and can be swallowed. European pharmacopeia adopted the term Oro-dispersible tablet for MDTs. Mouth dissolving tablets are also known as Fast melting tablets. Oro-dispersible tablets, fast dissolving tablets or melt in mouth tablets. This article reviews the potential benefits offered by MDTs as a oral drug delivery system for various kinds of patients suffering from different diseases and disabilities. Desired characteristics and challenges for developing fast disintegrating drug delivery systems, quality control tests, various techniques used in the preparation of fast disintegrating drug delivery systems like lyophilization technologies, tablet molding method, sublimation techniques, spray drying techniques, direct compression method. It also reviews the patented technologies for fast dissolving tablets, advantages and disadvantages of different technologies for preparing fast disintegrating dosage form, future prospective for MDTs. The growing importance for MDTs is due to the potential advantages offered by this technology. MDT is a New Drug Delivery System with least disintegration time.