Damaged memory card?

I have a Kodak EasyShare Z712.
We had taken the memory card out of the camera and went to install into the hard drive.
The card seemed to "hang up" before it was completely in.
After trying to preview the pictures, we couldn't get them to come up.
We pulled the card back out and noticed one of the gold "teeth" was damaged.
There are very important images on the card, is there any way the card can be repaired?

Mike Brandt
January 2009