My MacBook LCD screen got grey fuzzy dot

Hi all,
My Macbook book just used for ~ 3 months old, today when I start
to draft some letter at pages I noticed my LCD screen having one gray
fuzzy dot at one specific location of the LCD screen. I try to on/off the macbook
but the dot still appeared permanently at that specific location of LCD screen.
I would like to know if any one of you have facing this problem before? and
what the solution for this problem...?
B/Regards..Alex Ooi

Is it in the menubar? I know that I thought that I was having screen problems but as it turned out that it was just part of my background that was getting blurred by the menubar.

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