My macbook built-in webcam has died 2 times since I have owned it. Any ideas?

I got the macbook in 2010. It was the last year they made the white macbook (that I can tell). Since then I have had the webcam die on me twice. The first time it was under the apple care plan and I took it back they replaced screen/unit. Less than a year later the same thing happened. No damage to the macbook. No dropping. No deleting of software. None of the normal programs which use the built-in webcam will even detect it. Nothing that I can think of that would cause this. Any ideas?

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http://community.skype.com/t5/Mac/OS-X-10-8-5-broke-Video-on-MacBook-Air/td-p/18 91729/page/4

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