Review Article Buccal Film: An Innovative Dosage Form Designed to Improve Patient Compliance

There is always increasing demands for developing a dosage form which improve patient convince and compliance specially for a buccal drug delivery. Buccal drug delivery system such as film, tablet, micro particle, wafers, lozenges, gel, and liposome are in market pipelines. Due to small size, small dose, thickness of buccal film over other dosage form is most acceptable and palatable. Buccal films provide satisfactory attachment with buccal layers and hence it is most convenient and suitable dosage form as compared to others. It can be enhance absorption of medicament with respect to others. The semisynthetic and synthetic natural polymer in low concentration can be used for the preparation of buccal film and hence such dosage form are easy to handle, cost effective, fast absorbable, non-irritating, elegant and mostly preferred by consumer.