Overview, Advantage And Disadvantage Of Pharmaceutical Standard Compressed Tablet
Pharmaceutical tablets are solid, flat or biconvex dishes, unit dosage form, prepared by compressing a drugs or a mixture of drugs, with or without diluents. Tablet is defined as a compressed solid dosage form containing medicaments with or without excipients. They vary in shape and differ greatly in size and weight, depending on amount of medicinal substances and the intended mode of administration. Compressed tablets Tablets are being formed by compressing the granules using the compression machines. A tablet formation takes place by the combined pressing action of two punches and a die. Read Also: General Properties Of Pharmaceutical Tablet Standard Compressed Tablets These are standard uncoated tablets made by compression using wet granulation, direct compression or double compression. It provides rapid disintegration and drug release. They are mostly intended to exert local action in gastrointestinal tract (GIT). It typically includes water insoluble drugs such as antacid and...
