Extruder nozzle/head got scratched from the cleaning tool

The brush they gave me scratched up the head and I think it is effecting my print quality. When laying the first layer, you can see it extrudes a wavy line instead of a nice smooth line. Is there any way to fix this? I tried using some scotch brite pad to smooth it out, it only came out marginally better, still extrudes a messy 1st solid layer...