Tablet Flashcards
Solid dosage form that contain active ingredients & excipients prepared by either molding or compression
Tablets
Most common
Most Stable
Most tamper-proof
Dosage form
Tablet
Advantages of Tablets
Precision and Low control variability
Low Manufacturing cost
Easy to package and ship
Appropriate for special release form
Simple to identify
Essentially tamper-proof
Disadvantages of Tablets
Good compatiblity is required
Resist compression
Requires encapsulation before compression
Tablet Types and Classes
Tablets for oral ingestion
Tablets used in oral cavity
Tablets used to prepare solution
Tablets formed by compression and in simplest form, contain no special coating
Conventional Compressed Tablets
Compressing additional tablet granulation on previosuly compressed granulation
Multiple Compressed Tablets - Layered Tablet
Compressing another granulation layer/outer shell around the preformed tablet
Multiple Compressed Tablets: Layered Tablet
Compressing another granulation layer/outer shell around the preformed tablet
Multiple Compressed Tablets: Press coated Tablet/Dry coated tablet or Compression Coated
Use of Multiple Compressed Tablets
Separate incompatible ingredients
Produce prolonged or repeated release profiles
Use of Multiple Compressed Tablets
Separate incompatible ingredients
Produce prolonged or repeated release profiles
Compressed talets coated by sugar solution
Sugar Coated Tablet
Sugar Coated Tablet
Most elegant solid dosage form
Most difficult and time consuming to produce
50 -100% increase in size and weight
Use of Sugar Coated Tablet
To improve appearance
Mask unpleasant taste or smell
Protect from Oxidation
Compressed tablets coated w/ a thin layer of a insoluble or soluble polymer
2 - 3% increase in weight
Film Coated Tablets
Use of Film Coated Tablets
Protect drug from atmospheric conditions
Compressed tablets coated with substances that resist solution in gastric fluid but disintegrate in intestine
Delayed Action tablet
Enteric Coated Tablets
Use of Enteric Coated Tablet
To protect the drug which are inactivated destroyed in stomach