Does Blow-Drying Accelerate Hair Loss?

Dr. Rassman,
Does blow-drying your hair accelerate hair loss? If so, is it worse if you use a brush attachment? Can you blow-dry transplanted hair?
If the plan is to transplant, say, 1200 follicles, how does the patient know that many were actually transplanted? Thanks, Doctor.

Blow drying does not accelerate the hair loss, but as the hair becomes miniaturized, the hair is more fragile and if one pulls too much or handles the hair roughly, then the hair may break off, giving the illusion that the hair loss is accelerating.

I really do not believe that you need to worry about the number of grafts you are paying for in our office. My finance office reconciles the patient accounting daily and routinely refunds money to patients who did not receive the targeted number of grafts. One of my patients, a well known actor, paid for 2500 grafts at my personal rate of $10/graft. When the accounting was finalized that day, he only got 1400 grafts, so we sent him a refund check for $11,000. After he got the check, he called me and argued with me, telling me that he did not care about the money and that I should keep the money. I refused to do so, saying that if he did not care about the money, he should give it to a charity, but that I had not earned it, so it was not mine to keep. He did make a donation of $11,000 to his favorite charity with my name on the donation. Integrity is either in a person or it is not and I was raised to believe that you can often tell the integrity of a man by his business dealings.