Tablets are the most popular solid dosage form and are typically prepared by molding or compression. Tablets contain medicinal ingredients and excipients formed into a solid dosage. Over half of all prescriptions dispensed are compressed tablets. Tablets come in various shapes and sizes to be easily swallowed and must be strong enough to withstand packaging and shipping but also break down in the stomach. Tablet properties are standardized in pharmacopeias.

1. Tablet (pharmacy)

2. Defination 2
Tablets may be defined as the solid
unit dosage form of medicament or medicaments with suitable
excipients.
Tablets are prepared either by molding or by compression.
The compressed tablet is the most popular dosage form in use
today.

3. About two-thirds of all prescriptions are dispensed as solid
dosage forms,
and half of these are compressed tablets.Tablets are often
stamped with symbols, letters, and numbers, which enable
them to be identified.
Sizes of tablets to be swallowed range from a few millimeters to
about a centimeter.
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Type
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5. 1:-Pill
» A pill was originally defined as a small, round, solid
pharmaceutical oral dosage form of medication.
» Today, pills include tablets, capsules, and variants thereof
like caplets — essentially, any solid form of
» medication colloquially falls into the pill category.
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6. A caplet is a smooth, coated, oval-shaped medicinal
tablet in the general shape of a capsule.
2:-Caplet (“capsule-shaped tablet”) 6

7. 3:-Orally disintegrating tablet
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» An orally disintegrating tablet or orodispersible tablet
(ODT), is a drug dosage form available for a limited range
of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medications.

8. Tablet properties
Tablets can be made in virtually any shape, although
requirements of patients and tableting machines mean
that most are round, oval or capsule shaped.
Tablets need to be strong enough to resist the stresses of
packaging, shipping and handling by the pharmacist and
patient.
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9. Tablets need to be hard enough that they don't break up in the
bottle, yet friable enough that they disintegrate in the gastric
tract.
Standards for tablet properties are published in the various
international pharmacopeias (USP/NF, EP, JP, etc.).
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10. Manufacturing of Tablets
» In the tablet pressing process, the appropriate amount of
active ingredient must be in each tablet.
» Hence, all the ingredients should be well-mixed. If a
sufficiently homogenous mix of the components cannot be
obtained with simple blending processes, the ingredients
must be granulated prior to compression to assure an even
distribution of the active compound in the final tablet.
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11. Advantages and disadvantages
» Tablets are simple and convenient to use.
» Colored coatings, embossed markings and printing
can be used to aid tablet recognition.
» Manufacturing processes and techniques can
provide tablets with special properties,
» for example, sustained release or fast dissolving
formulations.
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12. » Some drugs may be unsuitable for administration by
the oral route.
» Some drugs may be deactivated by the liver
» For drugs that need to have rapid onset, or that have
severe side effects, the oral route may not be
suitable.
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