Am I Causing My Hair Loss By Aggressively Styling?

Hi,
I’ve been always blow drying my hair, and I always straighten my hair with a hair dryer everyday. Sometimes I tug it and pull on it a little hard to get it straight under the heat. I noticed that on the side that I blow dry the most, there is the most significant hair loss, where as the other side is slightly receeded, this side is well recessed. Is this a mere coincidence or does my styling really has an effect on my hair loss??

thank you

Manhandling your hair can cause cause hair loss, particularly if you are in the early stages of genetic balding, which means the miniaturized hairs are not as strong as the more healthy hairs. The pulling with heat may dry and damage the hair shaft, leading to more brittle and easily broken hair. The only way blow drying can cause hair loss is if you actually leave the blow dryer too close to your scalp for a long period of time, causing burning to your scalp, thus possibly leading to hair loss. The constant pulling you are telling me about may be causing traction alopecia (hair loss from pulling on the hair shaft).