Advantages and disadvantages of tablets as dosage forms

        

Tablets are the dosage form having great popularity in their use.So it is important to reveal .the advantage and disadvantages of this dosage form.

ADVANT AGES

1.       Tablets are elegant in appearance and convenient to use.

2.       The tablets dosage form are simple,economical in manufacturing,most stable and most convenient in packaging,shiping and transportation.

3.       These can be manufactured to show product identification, e.g. exhibiting the required markings on the surface.

4.       A wide range of tablet types is available, offering a range of drug release rates and durations of clinical effect. Tablets may be formulated to offer rapid drug release or controlled drug release, the latter reducing the number of daily doses required (and in so doing increasing patient compliance).

5.       Tablets may be formulated to contain more than one therapeutic ingredients showing a combination thus reducing multiple tablets use.

6.       It is very easy to mask the taste of bitter active ingredients thus make convience for patient.

7.       Tablets can be formed for local effects e.g. In ulcerative colitis special tablets can be used for rectal insertion.

8.       Tablets provides accurate dosage to the patient

9.       Tablets are generally an inexpensive dosage form.

       DISADVANTAGES   

1.       Its manufacturing involve several unit operation thus at each step there is loss of ingradients of tablets

2.       Finding of good compatibility between active and inactive ingredients for tablets formulation require huge hit and tial experientation.

3.       The absorption of therapeutic agents from tablets is dependent on physiological factors, e.g. gastric emptying rate and shows interpatient variation.

4.       May be problematic for children and elders due to difficulties in swallowing.


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