HT2090 My isight/ built-in camera is not working

I went to the Apple troubleshooting sight and the issue is that it is not recognized under the USB section in the system profiler. The camera is not recognized on all applications and I already tried doing a software update, restarting it, and resetting the SMC. It still doesn't work. No green light or anything. Any other suggestions on how to fix it? Is it possibly linked to the DVD drive I just got replaced in the computer? (I don't see how they'd be related, but whatever).

if the camera was working fine before the DVD drive replacement, and after you got it back it stopped working, that is an indication that something wrong happened during the repair and the shop needs to fix it free of charge.

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