Brief Reviev on Buccal Patches

The aim of this article is to focus on buccal patches. Buccal route found to be more suitable for the delivery of pharmaceutical agents using mucoadhesive polymers due to presence of relative lystatic and smooth surface on which various mucoadhesive dosage forms can be placed. The mucosa of buccal cavity is the most easily accessible transmucosal site delivery help to bypass first-pass metabolism by allowing direct access to systemic circulation. Buccal patch has been become an interesting area of novel drug delivery system as the dosage forms designed for buccal administration should not cause irritation and should be small and flexible enough to be accepted by the patient. Buccal delivery medication gives a convenient route of administration for both local and systemic effects. This presents a brief description the study of buccal patches and include its introduction, types of buccal patches, advantages, limitation, anatomical structure of oral mucosa, potential uses of buccal patches, methods of preparation, evaluation.