Dent in Macbook pro 15 inch

I have a dent in my Macbook Pro 15 inch, early 2011
It is located near the battery indicator on the side of the laptop.
How much will it approximately cost to fix this?
This dent caused small gap between the unibody and the bottom case.
Thanks a lot

Such dents require replacement of the case itself to repair. I don't know how much it cost in a recent unibody MacBook Pro, but when I dropped my older (non-unibody) MacBook Pro in 2010 and dented it in that same place, I was quoted $610 for the repairs. But, only Apple can tell you what the cost will be for your MacBook Pro.

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I've had my 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display for 6 months now and other than the screen, I've enjoyed it very much.
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I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and just noticed this today in a similar location - from center, mine is about two inches right and one inch up. I thought it was a dead pixel after cleaning it and then realized it was a little dent. The location, when the notebook is closed, corresponds to the flat area between the Command key and Trackpad.
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I recently accidentally dropped my macbook pro 13 inch mid 2010 on the floor. the computer was in its sleeve and inside a supposedly laptop protective bg. After wards I turned on my mac and it is working fine. The only mark is a dent pretty much on top of the ehternet port. Its a maybe quater of a centemete dent if not less. One can hardly notice it except of the whitesh spot that had appeared on top of the ethernet port. And their is also a similar looking spot, and a tiny dent in the middle of the macs base. Like under the macbook in the center a whitish spot, not as pronunced. I might just be paranoid but it seems that my mac is heating up a bit more than before.
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