Tablet 1
Tablet 1
Tablet 1
Form
A Compressed Solid Dosage Form Containing Medicaments
Tables Dosage Form :
Tablets: Solid dosage form containing medicaments with or
without excipients .
1. They are unit dosage form and offer the greatest capabilities of all oral
dosage form for the greatest dose precision and the least content variability.
2. Cost is lowest of all oral dosage form.
3. Lighter and compact.
4. Easiest and cheapest topackage and strip.
5 .Easy to swallowing with least tendency for hang‐up.
6. Sustained release product is - possible by enteric coating.
7. Objectionable odor and bitter taste can be masked by coating technique.
8. Suitable for large scale production.
9. Greatest chemical and microbial stability over all oral dosage form.
Disadvantages of Tablet dosage form are:
(A) Tablets ingested orally :
1.Compressed tablet, e.g. Paracetamol tablet
2.Multiple compressed tablet .
3.Repeat action tablet .
4.Delayed release tablet, e.g. Enteric coated
Bisacodyl tablet .
5.Sugar coated tablet, e.g. Multivitamin tablet .
6.Film coated tablet, e.g. Metronidazole tablet .
(B) Tablets used in oral cavity:
1.Buccal tablet, e.g. Vitamin‐c tablet.
2.Sublingual tablet, e.g. Vicks Menthol tablet .
3.Troches or lozenges .
4.Dental cone.
3. Hypodermic tablet
Chewable tablets
are an oral dosage form intended to be chewed and then swallowed by the
patient rather than swallowed whole. Flavoring , sweetening and coloring
agent are important.
Effervescent tablets
A type of tablet that breaks up when you drop it in liquid like water or juice.
The tablet completely dissolves in the liquid.
1.Hard
2.Soft
3.chewable
❖ Pellets (tablets for implantation)
❖ Vaginal tablets
1.Have Local effect
2.Ovoid-shaped tablets that are inserted into the vagina
Tablet Ingredients
In addition to active ingredients and contains a number of inert materials
known as additives or excipients. Different excipients are:
➢ Excipients:
1.Diluent
2. Binder and adhesive
3. Disintegrents
4. Lubricants and glidants
5. Colouring agents
6. Flavoring agents
7. Sweetening agents
➢ Excipients Can Be Classified Into:
1. natural.
2. semi-synthetic.
3. fully synthetic compounds.
➢ Excipients should:
إشــراف :
د.عبدالولي الشرجبي