A review on: medicated chewing gum

An overview on Medicated Chewing Gum and its Applications

Medicated chewing gum, a novel drug delivery system

New formulations and technologies have been developed through oral drug delivery systems' researches. Such researches display significance of oral route amongst patients. We've reviewed all the features associated with medicated chewing gum as a modern drug delivery by introducing the history, advantages and disadvantages, methods of manufacturing, composition differences, evaluation tests and ...

Directly Compressible “medicated Chewing Gum (mcg)” for Staying Alert

Medicated chewing gums are defined by the European Pharmacopoeia 1 and the guidelines for pharmaceutical dosage forms as „„solid single dose preparations with a base consisting mainly of gum that are intended to be chewed but not swallowed, providing a slow steady release of the medicine contained‟‟2. It can be either used for local treatment of mouth disease or systemic delivery by direct intr...

formulation and evaluation of medicated chewing gum of nicotine tartrate

Sugar-free Chewing Gum and Dental Caries – a Systematic Review

OBJECTIVE To appraise existing evidence for a therapeutic / anti-cariogenic effect of sugar-free chewing gum for patients. METHOD 9 English and 2 Portuguese databases were searched using English and Portuguese keywords. Relevant articles in English, German, Portuguese and Spanish were included for review. Trials were excluded on lack of randomisation, control group, blinding and baseline data...