The Advantages and Disadvantages of Tablets Several Drug Rehabilitation Center in Mumbai stated that the oral route of drug administration is the most important method of administering drugs for systemic effects. The Drug Rehabilitation Center in Mumbai mainly defined Tablets as a definition of a compressed unit solid dosage form containing medicaments with or without excipients. Excipients may include diluents ,binders, granulating agents, glidants and lubricants to ensure the systematic process of tableting. The Drug Rehabilitation Center in Mumbai mainly says that not all tablets are good for body consumption, and many-a-times people consume them just to stay dozed off. Thus, below are the advantages and disadvantages of tablets. Advantages of Tablets 1) They are a unit dose form, they offer the greatest capabilities of all oral forms for the greatest dose precision and the least content variability. 2) Their cost is the lowest. 3) They are the lightest and the most dense of all oral dosage forms. 4) They are the easiest and cheapest to package and ship. 5) Product identification is simple and cheap. 6)They provide the greatest ease to swallow. 7) They impart themselves to certain special release profile products, such as enteric or delayed release products. 8) They are better suited for large scale production. Disadvantages of Tablets 1) Some medicines withstand compression into dense compacts, owing to their amorphous nature,low density character.
2) Drugs with poor wetting, slow dissolution properties, intermediate to larger dosages may cause difficulty, or not possible to formulate and manufacture as a tablet that will still provide adequate or full drug bioavailability.