Fairman, 58, who runs the Bodmin Dental Lab in Cornwall, was fined £500 and ordered to pay out £500 in the direction of fees and a £50 victim surcharge for breaching the Dentists Act 1984.
The dental regulator mentioned Fairman had in no way been registered with the GDC.
He has run Precision Dental Engineering, supplying professional metals and plastics to the dentistry market, since 1973.
His Bodmin-primarily based laboratory shot to fame in 1977 when it won the contract to give the teeth for Jaws.
Fairman later on met 7ft Kiel who thanked him for manufacturing the metal teeth and gave him a signed photograph.
But he recalled in interview: “I met Richard Kiel a lot of years later on and asked him how he had acquired on with my operate, and he told me they have been the most uncomfortable thing he had ever worn, and he hated my guts.
“He said he could only dress in them for a couple of minutes and they were the bane of his lifestyle. I believed I’d completed a very good task, but you live and learn.”
Fairman of St Newlyn East, Cornwall, also aided former world darts champion Eric Bristow to conquer continual snoring problems ahead of he took part in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Right here two years in the past.
Precision Dental Engineering generates anti-snoring products under its Stopsnore brand, which claims to be “a full stop snoring answer that does not compromise comfort”.
Fairman explained of the device used for Bristow: “We have offered Eric a gadget that will hold his jaw in a somewhat sophisticated place whilst sleeping and that must do the trick, although Eric looks to have competitors in the jungle from a couple of other hefty snorers.
“I have acknowledged Eric for many years by way of my father, and he approached me to try and solve his snoring difficulty, so I offered him with a Snorebond which he took to the jungle as his luxury item.”
Fairman said his current prosecution was based on a “technicality”.
He blamed a “slip of the tongue” for accidentally calling himself a dentist technician in the video, in which he criticised the NHS.
He said: “From 1978 to 2008 I was a dental technician and I was totally certified.
“The GDC started registering everybody that moved in dentistry in 2008 and I explained no thanks, I do not want to be concerned in that.
“I made the decision to stick to what I do, which is what I am legally entitled to do. I get in touch with myself a dental mechanic. I fix dentures and make copy dentures.
“I accidentally known as myself a dental technician in the video simply because I employed to be a single and the GDC jumped on me like a tonne of bricks.”
The GDC explained it did not comment on person instances.
But a spokesman said: “Underneath sections 41 and 43 of the Dentists Act 1984, the General Dental Council has the electrical power to carry a prosecution against an person or organization where it is working the organization of dentistry with no the bulk of its directors becoming registered with us.”
Creator of Jaws" metal teeth prosecuted by Basic Dental Council
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