How to fix a lens that won't open?

How to fix a lens that won't open? Camera was dropped and fell on the spiraling\telescoping lens and seems to have jammed the mechanism. Lens won't open or close and causes the camera to auto-shutdown.
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Guest [Entry]

"For point and shoot cameras, if you drop the camera while its on (lens extended) and the lens get banged, it if it won't retract, there is a good chance that its a goner, having extensive experiences with all sorts of point and shoots, if you can twist it to break it free or push it, the AF (Autofocus) system may not work as well and may not focus on anything at all. From here, you can do one of two things:

If its a fairly new camera, repair it, but the repair may cost just as much as the camera itselfor buy a new camera, because, like I said before, the repair would cost just as much as the original price."

Guest [Entry]

"When my camera had this problem I looked for a broken model on eBay.

I found a model with a broken LCD but other wise powered on.

So I opened up both, removed the LCD from mine and put it into the eBay camera, the camera has worked for years after that."

Guest [Entry]

Can you help me. The camera was dropped and lens will not extend. Can I repair this myself.