Development Of Biodegradable Sustained Release Implants Using A Novel Technique

Abstract

Implantable drug delivery devices are devoid of aforementioned limitations associated with oral, intravenous, topical drug administration vis-à-vis subcutaneously implantable drug delivery devices offer one unique advantage of a retrievable mechanism. For incorporation of a variety of therapeutic agents with different physicochemical properties and for better control of drug release, number of excipients is now used. Thus, more recent implants usually contain the drug in a rate controlling systems. These systems are available in a variety of sizes and shapes.