I cannot play cd or dvd on my disc drive

It is Macbook pro 13-inch with 4GB 1333MHz DDR3, OS X 10.9.4 (13E28), bought in late 2011. Today I have some DVD and CD of my coursebook and want to play it on my Macbook pro, but I could not even insert it into the drive first. Then I go to System Preference and click on CD&DVD Player. It was inserted, and it spinned and rejected. I wonder what happened? Is it OS update issue? Or Hardware issue?
PS: It was once dropped from a learning table in my class. I am curious if that is the reason I cannot play CD or DVD.
Please kindly help me find the solution.

Lens cleaning DVDs are cheap (on Amazon you will pick one up for less than $/£10. They are normal discs but on the underside, they have small microfibre bristles that brush over the lens as it rotates. Granted as your drive doesn't seem to want to read discs, this may be futile, but worth a shot. Just make sure you buy one which is PC/Mac compatible.
As for a replacement drive, if you are covered by an Apple warranty you should book some Genius time in-store. If you are handy with a screwdriver, then replacing it yourself is fairly easy and there are plenty of instruction videos on Youtube.
All depends how much you use the drive. Your best option might be just to buy an external USB drive that you can pick up for next to nothing and just plug straight in.

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