Making a Temporal Bone Holder

Rounded base of bowl is placed on the black ring, and allows bowl (& bone) to be tilted in all directions. 

Lead disc placed inside bowl to weight it down.

Make your own metal holder

• Any technician can make one for you
• Iron /steel cooking pot or metal ring
• Drill 4 holes at 3, 6, 9, and 12 o’clock
• Weld / Braze nuts over holes or tap thread
  into holes
• Sharpen tips of bolts
• Screw sharpened bolts into nuts/tapped holes
• Rounded base of bowl is placed on ring, and allows bone to be tilted
• If pot has flat base, use wooden wedges placed under pot to angulate temporal bone

Make your own plastic holder

• Cut plastic football in half
• Place material e.g. clay / plasticine / cement into ball
• Press temporal bone into malleable material until only outer surface exposed