In the recent years, many of the pharmaceutical groups are focusing their research on rapid dissolving technology. Amongst the rapid drug releasing products, Fast Dissolving Oral film technology is gaining much attention. The main advantage of this technology is the administration to pediatric and geriatric patient population where the difficulty of swallowing larger oral dosage forms is eliminated. An attempt was made to explore the film forming properties of various film formers used in oral film technology. Different grads of methocel, pullulan, Chitosan, PVA and kollicoat IR were used as film formers. Films were prepared by solvent casting method. Films composed of HPMC E5 in combination with PVA showed excellent film forming capacity along with folding endurance 52, disintegration time 24sec and dissolution time 46sec.
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