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Rapimelt Tablets are oral solid dosage forms that disintegrate in the oral cavity in easy swallow residue. Rapimelt tablets are also known as Mouth dissolving tablets, Orally disintegrating tablets, Melt- in- mouth, Fast dissolving drug delivery, Rapimelts tablets, Porous tablets, Quick dissolving tablets etc. Recently ODT terminology has been approved by United States Pharmacopoeia, British Pharmacopoeia, and Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Recently, ODT have started gaining popularity and acceptance as new drug delivery systems, because they are easy to administer and lead to better patient compliance especially in elderly and children. In order to allow fast dissolving tablets to dissolve in the mouth, they are made of either very porous and soft- moulded matrices or compressed into tablets with very low compression force, which makes the tablets friable and/or brittle, which are difficult to handle, often requiring specialized peel-off blister packaging. Along with the rapid market growth of ODT products, the technologies, too, have advanced considerably over the years. The newest generation of ODTs can produce more robust, versatile tablets that overcome some of the limitations of earlier ODTs. Companies such as Eurand can produce pleasant tasting tablets, overcoming the common problem of poor drug taste compromising the benefits of an ODT.