A Review on Floating Drug Delivery System and Its Possible Future Scope

Abstract

The purpose of writing this review on floating drug delivery systems attempts to compile the recent literature with special focus on various floating drug delivery systems approaches that have recently become leading methodologies in the field of site-specific orally administered controlled release drug delivery. In recent years scientific and technological advancements have been made in the research and development of controlled release oral drug delivery systems by overcoming physiological adversities like short gastric residence times and unpredictable gastric emptying times. So generally floating dosage systems form important technological drug delivery systems with gastric retentive behavior and offer several advantages in drug delivery. In this review current and recent development of floating drug delivery system is discussed.