Principles of Floating Drug Delivery System

The most frequent application of medicines is the peroral way of administration, which provides easy to take option, relatively low therapeutic cost, various formulations and applicable technologies. Its spread is shown by the fact that more than 50% of commercially available medicines are orally applied preparations. Higher patient compliance may be experienced due to their easy application. Although among the per os administered preparations, few are designed with biopharmaceutical aspect meeting with the physiological environment of the dosage forms. While until the 90¿s not much, however nowadays more frequently modified drug delivery systems are designed containing special excipients and/or manufactured with special technological methods. With novel preparations having controlled release, patient compliance can be increased more, namely multiple daily administrations can be reduced to once a day administration.