Mouth Dissolving Tablets: An Insight into Challenges and Future Prospects of Technologies in Pharmaceutical Industries

Abstract

Despite advancements in science and technology and newer innovations in drug delivery, the oral route is still the most popular route for administering the drugs. The tremendous measures are adopted to make it as cost-effective, non-invasive, and self-administrative process for improving patient compliance. It has found acceptance from people of all ages, especially children and old age, as there is difficulty in swallowing the tablet. The longing efforts have made to improve the flavor and taste of orally managed tablets that prompted the advancement of numerous medicines with improved acceptance and palatability. Mouth dissolving tablets (MDTs) have become progressively prominent in recent decades, and this field has turned into a quickly developing territory in the pharmaceutical industries. One of the promising characteristics of MDTs is the quick disintegration in the mouth when mixed with saliva and provides a pleasant and sweet taste for disagreeable medicines. This article surveys the past utilizations and newer techniques adopted by descriptors for taste concealing. It projects the most recent improvements and strategies taken for diminishing the sharpness for oral pharmaceuticals. It further highlights the problems faced by paediatrics and geriatrics patients in the swallowing of tablets and also adopted for the disintegration of the tablet in the mouth to enhance patient compliance and acceptability through ease of administration at an affordable cost. The incorporation of superdisintegrants employed for the development of the MDTs and other formulation aspects promotes the use of MDTs in pharmaceutical industries from a research point of view.