This article focuses on issues related to bone tissue diagnostics in children with type I diabetes (different length of disease history). The results of densitometry with automatic calculation of the Z-criterion, allowed evaluating the bone tissue mineral density in the lumbar spine. The quantitative and qualitative specifics of the jaw bone tissue were based on orthopantomography and cone-beam computed tomography. The mineral and bone metabolism status was studied based on the laboratory-test data (total calcium, ionized calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, calcitonin, osteocalcin, parathyroid hormone, 25 OH vitamin D, β-CrossLaps). The earlier stages of the disease were found to feature an increase in the bone tissue remodeling rate along with escalating bone formation intensity. The children with a long history of type 1 diabetes revealed slower bone remodeling with bone resorption dominating over bone formation, as well as a significant decrease in the mineral density with the bone tissue structure demonstrating the dominance of the criteria like within the expected age norm and low mineral density with respect to the average age norm. K E y w o r d s-type 1 diabetes, osteodensitometry, conebeam computed tomography, orthopantomography, bone metabolism. I n t R o D U C t I o n The results of epidemiological studies carried out by the International Diabetes Federation in more than one hundred countries all over the world in the past forty years showed that type 1 diabetes is the leading condition among endocrine pathologies in children, and the current trend points at a steady increase in the incidence. These data served the basis for adopting regulatory and legal international acts aimed at combating type 1 diabetes in children (St. Vincent