Broken mini jack

Hello everyone,
Today my mini-jack from my headphones broke of in the output of my MacBook pro.
Only the tip of the mini-jack is in mt MacBook.
Is there a solution to get it out of my laptop?
Thankyou!

Look at this discussion and search the forum for others:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12832310#12832310
Ciao.

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