Is Skin the New Mode of Drug Delivery?

Alex D'souza, Medical Tech Outlook | Monday, December 28, 2020

The science and technology of drug delivery continues to wear the hat of innovation.

FREMONT, CA: Technology is increasingly revolutionizing the arena of drug delivery. In the modern industry of medical science and care, there is a new thing that gets added to the industrial arsenal every day. Drug delivery also has an innovation that diversifies its portfolio every day. Well, today, the news is that there is yet another revolution in the way drug is delivered. Read on to know more about it.

Skin is used as the new mode of drug delivery today. The era f medical care is driven by technology, and tech experts are phenomenally promoting the new style of delivering a drug through a pinch on the skin. A pinch on the skin results in a fold of the skin. This fold further forms a micropore underneath the surface of the skin. Research has proved that these micropores make a wide way for the drugs to get into the surface of the skin and join the blood veins and act upon the purpose for which it has been diffused.

The new technique stands as a testimonial for the continual development that happens in the realm of drug delivery. The method of delivering the drug through the skin by creating pressure on it and causing it to fold is believed to immensely form a radicle in defining the future of high tech and smart drug delivery. The new development features the creation of the temporal pressure. In this technique, the researchers and the drug delivery tech experts often compare the amount of drug that would be delivered through the micropore by temporal pressure to the amount of drug that would be delivered by a microneedle patch.

The traditional and conventional method of delivering the drug with the help of a syringe can be observed as a convenient method. The needles used are acutely smaller in size, and they are also made of biocompatible compounds. These sorts of syringes are used to inject a small amount of drug into the body of a patient. With time, the devices and instruments that are used to deliver drugs are increasingly being evolved and revolutionized with the efficacy of the technology.