A Review on Dispersible Tablets A Novel Drug Delivery System for Pedietrics and Geriatrics

Novel Drug Delivery system offer great chance to invent new drug delivery system for the betterment of the life. Oral dispersible tablets are modern day technology and extensively used for those formulations which are required for pediatrics and geriatrics. Dispersible tablet disintegrates rapidly into the mouth in presence of saliva, as they don't require water for disintegration. Such rapid disintegration is helpful for the person having problem of dysphasia. Dispersible tablet requires a key ingredient called supradisintegrants for such rapid and effective disintegration. There are various methodologies used for preparing such effective dispersible tablets like “ Compaction method, Freeze Drying, Molding Method, Sublimation, all such methods are effective to make dispersible tablets. There is need of evaluation of each and every tablet after manufacturing which requires evaluation parameters such as weight variation, Disintegration test, Dissolution Test, Hardness, and Thickness. This article discuss about dispersible tablets, methods of preparation for dispersible tablets, evaluation parameters and advantages and disadvantages. Nutan Prakash Sharma | Shivam Pandey | Hariom Sharma | Jaya Singh "A Review on Dispersible Tablets: A Novel Drug Delivery System for Pedietrics and Geriatrics" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25098.pdf