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Surfactants
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Ophthalmic DD: Excipients
Why?
• To solubilize or disperse drugs (nonionic surfactants are used in
relatively low concentrations to aid in dispersing steroids in
suspensions and to achieve or to improve solution clarity)
• For the wetting and spreading of the formulation on the surface of the
eye
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