The
Temporal bone is a valuable resource to study ear diseases and to teach anatomy
to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. It is one of the mostcomplicated bones of the skull. Methods of dissecting the middle ear have been
described in the text books of Anatomy, Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Those
methods mainly involve the piece meal removal of the bone to expose the
tympanic antrum and opening the middle ear cavity which requires a lot of time
and expertise. The Present study was conducted on 200 Temporal Bones of 100unidentified cadavers during Medico-legal Post-mortem Examination. We have
devised a new and a very simple method to dissect the temporal bone. Dissection
was carried out with the help of a single sharp edged chisel cut named as
Cobbler’s Cut that quickly exposes the middle ear cavity and helps in the
easily procurement of the ear ossicles (Malleus, Incus & Stapes). It was
found to be successful in 86% of the cases for the easy procurement of the
complete set of ear ossicles bilaterally. The cadaveric ear ossicles could be
of great help for the research purposes in Forensic Medicine and ENT.