Review on Fast Dissolving Tablets

Abstract

Fast dissolving drug delivery system (FDDS) is now gaining the popularity in pharmaceutical companies as theyare the novel drug delivery technique in order to provide the patient with medicines without obstacles in swallowing. It is very well known fact that a drug can be administered through many different routes so as to produce a systemic pharmacological effect. The route of administration is considered as the path by which a drug is taken into the body for the treatment of various diseases and disorders. The main route of administrating a drug is the oral route which is the oldest and most commonly used because of its ease of administration, selfmedication and avoidance of pain as compared to parental route. Oral drug delivery remains the preferred route of drug delivery. Despite of the tremendous advancement in oral route some of the people find difficultly in swallowing tablet and other oral dosage form, so in order to troubleshoot all these problem associated with oral route, fast dissolving drug delivery systems (FDDS) were first came into existence in 1970. Oral fast-dissolving tablets, are an examples of a few existing technologies which having the potential to accommodate various physicochemical, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of drugs. Since emergence it captures the major portion of tablets and capsules from the market, thus it satisfies the role over Conventional Dosage forms.