The Science Behind
Que-Strips™

Oral films are thin, flexible dosage forms designed to disintegrate in the mouth without water. Their small, portable format can offer a convenient alternative for people who do not want or have difficulty swallowing traditional tablets and capsules.

Film-forming polymers create a stable, lightweight dosage form that hydrates in saliva, breaks apart, and releases its contents in the oral cavity.

The lining of the mouth includes buccal and sublingual tissue with a rich blood supply. For compounds suited to this route, some absorption may occur across the oral mucosa.

Material absorbed through that tissue can reach systemic circulation directly, offering a pathway that can reduce gastrointestinal exposure and first-pass metabolism.

Oral-film performance is shaped by the active compound’s molecular properties, the film-forming polymers, composition, thickness, saliva, placement, and contact time.

By tuning those variables, formulators can influence mechanical strength, stability, disintegration, release, and suitability for oral-mucosal delivery.